Outdoors · Upper Freehold

Upper Freehold, NJ parks, trails & bike paths

About 54% of Upper Freehold is conserved land, roughly 16,411 acres. There are about 54 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Assunpink WMA (17.2 mi) and Byron Johnson Park (1 mi).

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

#121Most trails in NJ (of 354)#7Most conserved land in NJ (of 466)

At a glance

Upper Freehold outdoors

Conserved land

54%

16,411 of 30,148 acres

Trails

54 mi

1.1 mi per sq mi · 38 on conserved land

Parks & preserves

2,264 conserved acres per 1,000 residents

Bike routes

1.6 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

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.

Assunpink Wildlife Management Area

Managed by New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife

2,877 acres17.2 mi of trail

Omni TrailCross Country TrailStone Tavern LoopCon Center - Stone TavernUTT Connector

Dog rules not recorded

DirectionsTo the parking lot

Byron Johnson Park

Park

24 acres1 mi of trail

Dog rules not recorded

DirectionsTo the parking lot

Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.

6Playgrounds 3Boat launches

Playgrounds in Upper Freehold

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Directions

Unnamed playground in Byron Johnson Park

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Unnamed playground in Byron Johnson Park

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Trails

Named trails

Open to bikes 15.0 miHorses 20.4 miUnpaved 18.3 mi

Showing 1–10 of 13 trails

Union Transportation Trail9.0 mi
Omni Trail4.1 mi
Bridges Trail2.2 mi
Cross Country Trail2.1 mi
Old Forge Trail1.5 mi
Doctor's Creek Trail1.5 mi
Stone Tavern Loop1.4 mi
Clayton Fields Trail1.3 mi
Con Center - Stone Tavern1.2 mi
UTT Connector0.7 mi

Water

Lakes & rivers

Showing 1–10 of 11 places

Betsy Ross Pondpond Bunker Hill Pond Club House Pond Conines Millpondreservoir Farmer's Pond Gettysburg Pond Imlaystown Lakereservoir Red Valley Lakereservoir Small Pond Stone Tavern Lakelake

Tap a name for directions.

Who protects the land

16,411 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

County

17,637 ac

Other state land

4,247 ac

State fish & wildlife

3,936 ac

Town or city

1,161 ac

USDA easements (NRCS)

544 ac

Joint

295 ac

State natural resources

264 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 10,057 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 28 of 479 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
Shoulders & shared lanes1.5 mi
Union Transportation Trail (bike route)9 mi

Courts & fields

Tennis12
Baseball11
Equestrian8
Soccer7
Football3
Tracks3
Basketball2

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

Public lands

The biggest protected places in Upper Freehold

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.

Agricultural Easement 20,763 acState Conservation Area 3,382 acLocal Conservation Area 2,820 acLocal Other or Unknown 1,793 acState Resource Management Area 590 ac

Showing 1–10 of 15 places

Place	Managed by	Acres	Public access
Crosswicks Creek GreenwayLocal Conservation Area	Not recorded	3,842	Open
Assunpink Wildlife Management AreaState Conservation Area	State fish & wildlife	2,793	Open
Pleasant Run Wildlife Management AreaState Conservation Area	State fish & wildlife	912	Open
Clayton ParkLocal Other or Unknown	County	578	Open
Horse Park of New JerseyState Recreation Area	State fish & wildlife	360	Open
Indian Run Gold ClubLocal Conservation Area	Town or city	244	Open
Prospertown Lake Wildlife Management AreaState Resource Management Area	State fish & wildlife	211	Open
Cream Ridge Golf CourseState Recreation Area	State natural resources	186	Open
Union Transportation TrailLocal Recreation Area	County	72	Open
Imlaystown Lake Wildlife Management AreaState Conservation Area	State fish & wildlife	55	Open

History

Historic places to visit

Emleys Hill CemeteryCemetery

Directions

Nearby

Upper Freehold and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.

Town	Conserved	Trails	Parks & preserves
Upper Freehold	54.4%	53.5 mi	2
Millstone	26.1%	32.2 mi	6
Roosevelt	67.4%	1.2 mi	1
Robbinsville	24.5%	8.2 mi	6
Allentown	17.4%	2.3 mi	4
Hamilton	19.2%	22.3 mi	19

Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Upper Freehold'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 28.8-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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