1
Pawling Nature Reserve
Nature preserve
306 acres3.8 mi of trail
Orange LoopPurple TrailAppalachian Trail / Ridge TrailGreen TrailYellow Loop
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Dover
Dover, NY parks, trails & bike paths
About 5.8% of Dover is conserved land, roughly 2,081 acres. There are about 20 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Pawling Nature Reserve (3.8 mi) and Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge (1.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Dover, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Dover outdoors
Conserved land
5.8%
2,081 of 35,838 acres
Trails
20 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 12 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
8
248 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
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
Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge
Managed by United States Fish and Wildlife Service
144 acres1.7 mi of trail
Red TrailBlue Trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
West Mountain State Forest
Nature preserve
373 acres0.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
4
Town of Dover
Park
197 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 8 parks & preserves
- Leather Hill Preserve157 ac
- Swamp River Waterway Access56 ac
- Currie Sanctuary4 ac
- Appalachian Trail Scenic Open Space1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
2,081 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 144 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 6 of 22 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
- Baseball6
- Pickleball4
- Basketball3
- Soccer3
- Tennis2
- Softball1
- Beach volleyball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Dover and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Dover'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 26.2-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.