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Delaware Park
Park
338 acres6.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Buffalo
Buffalo, NY parks, trails & bike paths
About 7.9% of Buffalo is conserved land, roughly 2,631 acres. There are about 49 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Delaware Park (6.4 mi), Tifft Nature Preserve (5.7 mi), and Martin Luther King, Jr. Park (4 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Buffalo, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Buffalo outdoors
Conserved land
7.9%
2,631 of 33,370 acres
Trails
49 mi
0.9 mi per sq mi · 41 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
115
10 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
93.0 mi
42.7 mi lanes · 27.2 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
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.
2
Tifft Nature Preserve
Nature preserve
263 acres5.7 mi of trail
Mounds TrailRabbit Run EastSnakeroot TrailMounds Bypass TrailService Trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
Martin Luther King, Jr. Park
Park
58 acres4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Cazenovia Park
Park
187 acres2.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Red Jacket River Front Park
Park
38 acres2.2 mi of trail
Valley Nature Park Habitat Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Riverside Park
Managed by City of Buffalo
38 acres2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
7
McCarthy Park
Park
32 acres1.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
8
Unity Island Park
Managed by Buffalo Park System
69 acres0.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 115 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 115 parks & preserves
Delaware Park338 acres · 6.4 mi of trail
Tifft Nature Preserve263 acres · 5.7 mi of trail
Martin Luther King, Jr. Park58 acres · 4 mi of trail
Cazenovia Park187 acres · 2.9 mi of trail
Red Jacket River Front Park38 acres · 2.2 mi of trail
Riverside Park38 acres · 2 mi of trail · City of Buffalo
McCarthy Park32 acres · 1.3 mi of trail
Unity Island Park69 acres · 0.9 mi of trail · Buffalo Park System
Ship Canal Commons24 acres · 0.8 mi of trail · City of Buffalo
Broderick Park6 acres · 0.8 mi of trail · Buffalo Parks System
Who protects the land
2,631 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 11 of 167 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes42.7 mi
- Off-road bike paths27.2 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes23.1 mi
Courts & fields
- Basketball89
- Baseball78
- Tennis53
- Golf38
- Soccer24
- Football10
- Multi-sport10
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Buffalo and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo | 7.9% | 49.0 mi | 115 |
| Cheektowaga | 5.1% | 13.9 mi | 20 |
| West Seneca | 6% | 5.1 mi | 16 |
| Amherst | 10.1% | 47.9 mi | 33 |
| Lackawanna | 1.8% | 5.4 mi | 4 |
| Tonawanda | 5.9% | 5.8 mi | 14 |
| Sloan | 3.5% | 0.1 mi | 1 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Buffalo'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 28.6-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.