Outdoors · Altona

Altona, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 12% of Altona is conserved land, roughly 7,682 acres. There are about 41 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Flat Rock State Forest (7 mi).

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

At a glance

Altona outdoors

Conserved land
12%
7,682 of 64,428 acres
Trails
41 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 8 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
3,085 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

Flat Rock State Forest

Nature preserve
1,908 acres7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
2

Spring Brook State Forest

Nature preserve
1,143 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
3

Lewis Preserve Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
1,312 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
4

Dunkin's Reserve State Forest

Nature preserve
79 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
All 5 parks & preserves
  • Clinton Forest Preserve Detached Parcel59 ac
Who protects the land

7,682 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State conservation
4,534 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
2,219 ac
Other state land
1,389 ac
American Indian Lands
645 ac
Town or city
77 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
30 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 636 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 3 of 15 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

  • Basketball2
  • Tennis1

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

Next door

Altona and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Altona11.9%41.2 mi5
Mooers3.6%13.6 mi3
Chazy6.7%9.9 mi2
Ellenburg24%14.2 mi3
Beekmantown6.2%10.0 mi3
Dannemora29.4%33.1 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Altona'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 35.5-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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