Outdoors · Burlington

Burlington, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 9.5% of Burlington is conserved land, roughly 2,718 acres. There are about 2.7 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Burlington outdoors

Conserved land
9.5%
2,718 of 28,628 acres
Trails
2.7 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
3
2,589 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

123
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

Hartwick State Forest

Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
661 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
2

Basswood Pond State Forest

Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
641 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
3

Plainfield State Forest

Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
115 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Who protects the land

2,718 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State conservation
1,426 ac
Other state land
1,167 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
1,141 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
90 ac
Town or city
1 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 123 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 13 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
Next door

Burlington and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Burlington9.5%2.7 mi3
Otsego6.1%4.9 mi8
New Lisbon10.4%7.3 mi2
Edmeston1.9%1.9 mi1
Plainfield9.5%3.0 mi1
Exeter8.3%2.0 mi2
Hartwick6.4%2.8 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Burlington'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 24.2-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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