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Van Schaick Park
Park
7 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Cohoes
Cohoes, NY parks, trails & bike paths
About 5.6% of Cohoes is conserved land, roughly 150 acres. There are about 2.7 miles of mapped trails.
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Cohoes, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Cohoes outdoors
Conserved land
5.6%
150 of 2,694 acres
Trails
2.7 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi · 1 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
12
8 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
6.3 mi
0.2 mi lanes · 6.1 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
Cohoes Falls View Park
Park
2 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
Peebles Island State Park
Managed by New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
33 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
4
Lansing Park
Park
14 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 12 parks & preserves
- West End Park5 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- George Street Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Berkley Park10 ac · Directions
- Col. Robert R. Craner Veterans Park3 ac · Directions
- Sunset Park2 ac · Directions
- Alexander Street Park1 ac
- Heartt Avenue Park1 ac
- Gristini Park1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
150 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 10 of 13 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.2 mi
- Off-road bike paths6.1 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball11
- Tennis9
- Basketball9
- Soccer3
- Softball2
- Football1
- Lacrosse1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Cohoes and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cohoes | 5.6% | 2.7 mi | 12 |
| Colonie | 7% | 77.4 mi | 36 |
| Waterford | 12.5% | 11.3 mi | 11 |
| Green Island | 3.8% | 0.5 mi | 3 |
| Green Island | 3.8% | 0.5 mi | 3 |
| Troy | 7.2% | 22.9 mi | 25 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Cohoes'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 20-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.