Outdoors · Afton

Afton, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 13% of Afton is conserved land, roughly 3,876 acres. There are about 2.8 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Melondy Hill State Forest (2.5 mi).

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

At a glance

Afton outdoors

Conserved land
13%
3,876 of 29,694 acres
Trails
2.8 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
1,418 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

Melondy Hill State Forest

Nature preserve
3,639 acres2.5 mi of trail
State Forest Truck Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
2

Oak Ridge State Forest

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

Susquehanna River Boat Launch

Park
4 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

3,876 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State conservation
3,874 ac
Town or city
2 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 4 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 lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball4
  • Tennis2

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

Nearby

Afton and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Afton13.1%2.8 mi3
Bainbridge1.9%8.0 mi3
Colesville2.4%4.0 mi4
Coventry11.3%1.8 mi4
Sanford10.8%7.4 mi9
Masonville22.9%20.6 mi11
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Afton'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-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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