Outdoors · Bethany

Bethany, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 2.3% of Bethany is conserved land, roughly 529 acres. There are about 18 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Genesee County Park and Forest (12 mi) and Groveland Secondary Trailway (5.9 mi).

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

At a glance

Bethany outdoors

Conserved land
2.3%
529 of 22,958 acres
Trails
18 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 18 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
302 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

12
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 County Park and Forest

Managed by Genesee County
439 acres12 mi of trail
Boundary TrailFire BreakCreek TrailPlantation TrailGeneral Conservation Trail
Dogs on leashMapped in OpenStreetMap
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Groveland Secondary Trailway

Park
98 acres5.9 mi of trail
Groveland Secondary Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Who protects the land

529 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
County
425 ac
State conservation
104 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 2 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

  • Beach volleyball1

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

Next door

Bethany and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Bethany2.3%18.2 mi2
Stafford0.7%2.5 mi0
Middlebury11.4%23.3 mi2
Alexander0.4%6.5 mi1
Batavia1.3%2.0 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Bethany'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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