1
Giant Mountain Wilderness
Nature preserve
11,944 acres13.6 mi of trail
East TrailNorth TrailIron mountainpath (red blazes)Blueberry Cobbles Bypass Trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Elizabethtown
Elizabethtown, NY parks, trails & bike paths
About 56% of Elizabethtown is conserved land, roughly 29,563 acres. There are about 53 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Giant Mountain Wilderness (13.6 mi), Hammond Pond Wild Forest (4.2 mi), and Hurricane Mountain Wilderness (2 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Elizabethtown, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Elizabethtown outdoors
Conserved land
56%
29,563 of 52,840 acres
Trails
53 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi · 36 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
8
25,729 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
Hammond Pond Wild Forest
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
5,174 acres4.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
Hurricane Mountain Wilderness
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
3,123 acres2 mi of trail
East Hurricane TrailHurricane Crag Trail
Dog rules not recorded
4
Hurricane Mountain Primitive Area
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
4 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
Who protects the land
29,563 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 8,498 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 9 of 20 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
- Tennis2
- Baseball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Elizabethtown and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Elizabethtown'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 34-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.