Outdoors · Brownville

Brownville, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 6.4% of Brownville is conserved land, roughly 2,692 acres. There are about 4.1 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Downybrook Nature Reserve (3.8 mi).

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

At a glance

Brownville outdoors

Conserved land
6.4%
2,692 of 41,871 acres
Trails
4.1 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
5
464 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

Downybrook Nature Reserve

Managed by Obi Land Trust
157 acres3.8 mi of trail
Downybrook Nature Preserve East Side TrailDownybrook
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead Website
2

Perch River Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
1,666 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
3

Dexter Marsh Wildlife Management Area

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

Brownville Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
234 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
All 5 parks & preserves
  • Dexter Memorial Park8 ac
Who protects the land

2,692 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State conservation
2,313 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
717 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
39 ac
Town or city
25 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
4 ac
Private owners
1 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 39 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 2 of 28 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

  • Baseball9
  • Tennis5
  • Soccer2
  • Basketball1
  • Football1

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

Next door

Brownville and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Brownville6.4%4.1 mi5
Lyme7.5%1.6 mi6
Hounsfield1.5%28.0 mi9
Watertown0.7%3.3 mi2
Dexter4.3%0.0 mi1
Pamelia8.5%4.7 mi1
Clayton11.2%31.6 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Brownville'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 36.7-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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