Outdoors · Columbia

Columbia, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 1.8% of Columbia is conserved land, roughly 395 acres. Columbia has 1 named park and preserve on the map.

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

At a glance

Columbia outdoors

Conserved land
1.8%
395 of 22,324 acres
Trails
0.3 mi
0 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
1
262 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

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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

Herkimer Forest Preserve Detached Parcel

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

395 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
348 ac
State conservation
93 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 349 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 paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Nearby

Columbia and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Columbia1.8%0.3 mi1
German Flatts6%6.1 mi4
Warren1.1%0.9 mi2
Winfield2%4.9 mi2
Richfield2.5%0.2 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Columbia'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 25.8-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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