Outdoors · River Vale

River Vale, NJ parks, trails & bike paths

About 7.4% of River Vale is conserved land, roughly 204 acres. There are about 7.8 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Mark Lane Field Complex (0.6 mi).

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

At a glance

River Vale outdoors

Conserved land
7.4%
204 of 2,744 acres
Trails
7.8 mi
1.8 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
1
20 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 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

Mark Lane Field Complex

Managed by Township of River Vale
10 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

204 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city
172 ac
County
32 ac
Not recorded
47 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball2
  • Pickleball2
  • Basketball2
  • Softball2
  • Tennis1
  • Football1
  • Lacrosse1

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

Next door

River Vale and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
River Vale7.4%7.8 mi1
Old Tappan3.5%3.5 mi5
Westwood9.5%2.5 mi5
Hillsdale7.5%1.8 mi5
Harrington Park12.4%1.9 mi3
Park Ridge8.9%1.2 mi3
Emerson1.8%4.2 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about River Vale'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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