1
Belleplain State Forest
Nature preserve
1,905 acres5.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Upper
Upper, NJ parks, trails & bike paths
About 51% of Upper is conserved land, roughly 22,260 acres. There are about 20 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Belleplain State Forest (5.6 mi), Tuckahoe WMA (1.3 mi), and Peaslee WMA (0.9 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Upper, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Upper outdoors
Conserved land
51%
22,260 of 43,725 acres
Trails
20 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 16 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
8
1,777 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.6 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.6 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.
2
Tuckahoe Wildlife Management Area
Managed by New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Division of Parks and Forestry
4,394 acres1.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Peaslee Wildlife Management Area
Managed by New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife
1,316 acres0.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Cape May Coastal Wetlands Wildlife Management Area
Nature preserve
4,021 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 8 parks & preserves
- Cape May National Wildlife Refuge4,012 ac
- Corson's Inlet State Park72 ac
- Strathmere Natural Area50 ac
- Beaver Swamp Wildlife Management Area2 ac
Who protects the land
22,260 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 291 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 11 of 152 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 paths0.6 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
- Old Cape Trail (bike route)4.1 mi
- Narrows Road Trail (bike route)1.4 mi
- John's Run Trail (bike route)1 mi
- Tarkiln Bogs Trail (bike route)0.9 mi
- Cinder Trail (bike route)0.8 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis9
- Baseball7
- Basketball4
- Football1
- Skate park1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Upper and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper | 50.9% | 20.1 mi | 8 |
| Estell Manor | 64.5% | 61.3 mi | 6 |
| Corbin City | 66.5% | 2.1 mi | 2 |
| Dennis | 58.6% | 50.4 mi | 10 |
| Ocean City | 9% | 2.9 mi | 5 |
| Sea Isle City | 33.7% | 1.6 mi | 1 |
| Maurice River | 57% | 55.6 mi | 10 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Upper'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 40.8-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.