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Shindagin Hollow State Forest
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
4,817 acres13.3 mi of trail
Finger Lakes / North Country TrailSnowmobile TrailUnlabeled connector
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Caroline
Caroline, NY parks, trails & bike paths
About 23% of Caroline is conserved land, roughly 7,853 acres. There are about 31 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Shindagin Hollow State Forest (13.3 mi), Hammond Hill State Forest (2.1 mi), and Potato Hill State Forest (2 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Caroline, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Caroline outdoors
Conserved land
23%
7,853 of 34,926 acres
Trails
31 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi · 20 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
7
2,394 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
19.3 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 19.3 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
Hammond Hill State Forest
Nature preserve
1,125 acres2.1 mi of trail
Hammond Hill TrackFinger Lakes / North Country Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
3
Potato Hill State Forest
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
874 acres2 mi of trail
Finger Lakes / North Country Trail
Dog rules not recorded
4
Robinson Hollow State Forest
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
123 acres1.4 mi of trail
Finger Lakes / North Country Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
All 7 parks & preserves
- Danby State Forest6 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Slaterville 600 - Cornell Botanic Gardens7 ac
- Andersen Hill State Forest5 ac
Who protects the land
7,853 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 707 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 paths19.3 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Basketball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Caroline and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Caroline'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 29.5-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.