Outdoors · Clare

Clare, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 88% of Clare is conserved land, roughly 54,166 acres. There are about 46 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Grass River Wild Forest (9.2 mi).

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

At a glance

Clare outdoors

Conserved land
88%
54,166 of 61,834 acres
Trails
46 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 41 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
named on the map
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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Grass River Wild Forest

Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
5,597 acres9.2 mi of trail
Tooley Pond Mountain TrailClarksboro TrailTwin Falls TrailSinclair Falls Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Tooley Pond Mountain Trailhead Website
2

Taylor Creek State Forest

Nature preserve
90 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
3

Orebed Creek State Forest

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

Degrasse State Forest

Nature preserve
12 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Who protects the land

54,166 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State conservation
94,395 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 48,410 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 5 of 12 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
Nearby

Clare and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Clare87.6%45.5 mi4
Pierrepont10.2%10.6 mi3
Russell9.5%39.5 mi6
Colton62.7%152.8 mi12
Clifton50.7%82.1 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Clare'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 35.3-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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