1
Five Ponds Wilderness
Nature preserve
19,398 acres23.6 mi of trail
Six Mile Creek TrailFishpole Pond TrailOlmstead Pond TrailSouth Bay TrailCowhorn Junction Trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Clifton
Clifton, NY parks, trails & bike paths
About 51% of Clifton is conserved land, roughly 48,434 acres. There are about 82 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Five Ponds Wilderness (23.6 mi), Cranberry Lake Wild Forest (17.9 mi), and Grass River Wild Forest (0.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Clifton, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Clifton outdoors
Conserved land
51%
48,434 of 95,607 acres
Trails
82 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 55 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
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
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
Cranberry Lake Wild Forest
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
11,355 acres17.9 mi of trail
Peavine Swamp Ski TrailPeavine Swamp Ski Trail - Loop 2Bear Mountain TrailCampground TrailPeavine Swamp Ski Trail - Loop 1
Dog rules not recorded
3
Grass River Wild Forest
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
1,615 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
Who protects the land
48,434 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 14,982 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 7 of 26 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
- Pickleball2
- Tennis2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Clifton and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Clifton'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 51.3-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.