Outdoors · Bristol

Bristol, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 4.2% of Bristol is conserved land, roughly 989 acres. There are about 13 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Stid Hill Multiple Use Area (9.7 mi).

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

At a glance

Bristol outdoors

Conserved land
4.2%
989 of 23,309 acres
Trails
13 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 10 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
1
475 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.
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Stid Hill Multiple Use Area

Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
746 acres9.7 mi of trail
North LoopLower BlueBlue TrailSwitchbackOld Logger
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

989 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State conservation
749 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
199 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
31 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
10 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 230 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. 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

  • Tennis2
  • Basketball1

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

Nearby

Bristol and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Bristol4.2%12.9 mi1
Canandaigua2.9%12.0 mi5
East Bloomfield2.3%7.3 mi3
Richmond13.1%15.1 mi7
South Bristol8.5%48.1 mi7
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Bristol'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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