Outdoors · Athens

Athens, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 12% of Athens is conserved land, roughly 358 acres. Athens has 1 named park and preserve on the map.

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

At a glance

Athens outdoors

Conserved land
12%
358 of 2,930 acres
Trails
0.0 mi
0 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
1
184 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

Middle Ground Flats Unique Area

Nature preserve
318 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Who protects the land

358 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State conservation
320 ac
Town or city
25 ac
Private owners
12 ac
State parks
2 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
1 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 6 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
  • Basketball1

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

Next door

Athens and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Athens12.2%0.0 mi1
Athens3.9%4.4 mi5
Greenport25.9%13.3 mi7
Hudson14.4%0.9 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Athens'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 20-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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