Outdoors · Belfast

Belfast, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 4.4% of Belfast is conserved land, roughly 1,013 acres. There are about 9.1 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Genesee Valley Greenway State Park (5.2 mi).

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

At a glance

Belfast outdoors

Conserved land
4.4%
1,013 of 23,251 acres
Trails
9.1 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
564 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

Genesee Valley Greenway State Park

Managed by New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
101 acres5.2 mi of trail
Genesee Valley Greenway
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Coyle Hill State Forest

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

Rush Creek State Forest

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

Village Park

Park
1 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

1,013 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State conservation
877 ac
State parks
107 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
31 ac
Town or city
3 ac
Regional agency
3 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 2 of 7 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
  • Genesee Valley Greenway (bike route)3.2 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball3
  • Tennis2

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

Next door

Belfast and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Belfast4.4%9.1 mi4
Caneadea12.4%14.6 mi4
New Hudson27%13.7 mi5
Friendship6.5%1.7 mi2
Angelica6.3%4.6 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Belfast'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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