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Wharton State Forest
Managed by New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry
14,094 acres88.6 mi of trail
Fleming PikeFive Mile Crossing
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Waterford
Waterford, NJ parks, trails & bike paths
About 3.1% of Waterford is conserved land, roughly 707 acres. There are about 94 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Wharton State Forest (88.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Waterford, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Waterford outdoors
Conserved land
3.1%
707 of 23,059 acres
Trails
94 mi
2.6 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
1
68 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.3 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.3 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.
Who protects the land
707 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 325 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 5 of 60 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 paths0.3 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
- Goshen Pond Trail (white) (bike route)12.4 mi
- Burnt Mill Trail (red0 (bike route)11.7 mi
- Sleeper Creek Trail (blue) (bike route)5.4 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball5
- Beach volleyball2
- Soccer2
- Basketball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Waterford and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Waterford'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 27.9-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.