Outdoors · Pennsauken

Pennsauken, NJ parks, trails & bike paths

About 3.8% of Pennsauken is conserved land, roughly 292 acres. There are about 2.8 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Cooper River Park (0.5 mi).

Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Pennsauken, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

At a glance

Pennsauken outdoors

Conserved land
3.8%
292 of 7,755 acres
Trails
2.8 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
8
8 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.2 mi
1.4 mi lanes · 2.7 mi off-road paths

Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

Map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

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Tap a number or a place below to zoom in© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Cooper River Park

Park
56 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Cooper River Trail Parking
2

Petty's Island Preserve

Nature preserve
297 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
3

Gateway Park

Managed by Camden County Parks Department
11 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Pennsauken Memorial Park Recreation Center

Park
10 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 8 parks & preserves
Who protects the land

292 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city
207 ac
County
66 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
11 ac
Regional agency
10 ac
State fish & wildlife
1 ac
Not recorded
10 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 20 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes1.4 mi
  • Off-road bike paths2.7 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball24
  • Tracks9
  • Soccer7
  • Tennis6
  • Football4
  • Basketball3
  • Beach volleyball2

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Next door

Pennsauken and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Pennsauken3.8%2.8 mi8
Cinnaminson6.5%2.2 mi2
Camden8.9%10.1 mi28
Palmyra16.2%8.2 mi0
Merchantville2.4%0.2 mi1
Philadelphia14%234.5 mi332
Cherry Hill9.4%19.5 mi11
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Pennsauken's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.

Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US). Measured against the Census town boundary.

How we measure"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 20-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what's typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren't recorded.

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