Sears - Bellows Pond County Park
Park
747 acres7.9 mi of trail
Paumanok Pathyellow trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot
Outdoors in Flanders
57% of Flanders is wild, conserved land
There are about 40 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Sears - Bellows Pond County Park (7.9 mi), David A. Sarnoff Preserve (2.6 mi), and Iron Point Park (1.1 mi).
Conserved land
57%
4,471 of 7,879 acres
Trails
40 mi
3.2 mi per sq mi · 22 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
677 conserved acres per 1,000 people
Bike routes
4.7 mi
4.7 mi lanes
Highest peak
230 ft
Flanders Hill
Lakes & rivers
5
What kind of outdoors town is Flanders?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · The map
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it.
Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk
Pick a walk
The longest trail network is Sears - Bellows Pond County Park, with 7.9 miles. Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.
David A. Sarnoff Preserve
Nature preserve
1,166 acres2.6 mi of trail
Paumanok Path
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lotWebsite ↗
Iron Point Park
Park
51 acres1.1 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Silver Brook Pond Green
Managed by trustee
3 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 5 parks & preserves
🌳
Iron Point Park51 acres · 1.1 mi of trail
🌳
Silver Brook Pond Green3 acres · trustee
🌳
Flanders Memorial Park1 acres · Department of Parks and Recreation
Things to do
2 places to go in Flanders
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
Playgrounds in Flanders
Peaks in Flanders
Trails & water
2 named trails and 5 lakes & rivers
Named trails
Unpaved · 10.0 mi
Paumanok Path9.0 mi
yellow trail0.5 mi
Lakes & rivers tap for directions
Who protects it
4,471 conserved acres
Who manages Flanders’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
County4,731 ac
State conservation1,177 ac
Town or city242 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government117 ac
Private owners29 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits1 ac
Local Park · 4,971 acState Conservation Area · 1,177 acLocal Conservation Area · 118 acPrivate Other or Unknown · 29 acPrivate Conservation · 1 ac
Good to know
Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. Public access isn’t recorded for 3 of 16 parcels. The walks above are places people visit.
The biggest protected places
| Place | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUFFOLK COUNTY Land Local Park | County | 1,672 | Unknown |
| Hubbard County Park Local Park | County | 1,338 | Open |
| David A. Sarnoff Preserve State Conservation Area | State conservation | 1,177 | Open |
| Sears Belllows County Park Local Park | County | 1,095 | Open |
| Birch Creek Owl Pond County Park Local Park | County | 394 | Open |
| SOUTHAMPTON TOWN Land Local Park | Town or city | 173 | Unknown |
| Maple Swamp County Park Local Park | County | 118 | Open |
| Southampton Town Lands Local Conservation Area | Other or Unknown Local Government | 115 | Restricted |
| Long Island Pine Barrens Local Park | County | 113 | Open |
| Peconic Estuary Local Park | Town or city | 69 | Open |
4 smaller protected places aren’t shown.
Biking & sports
4.7 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
4.7 mi
painted or protected bike lanes
0.0 mi
off-road bike paths
0.0 mi
shoulders & shared lanes
🚲
Long Island Greenway—Phase IIBike route
3.9 miCourts & fields
1Tennis
1Baseball
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
Next door
Flanders and its neighbors
Tap a town to see its outdoors.
Southampton258 miRiverhead84 miNorthampton41 miFlanders40 miHampton Bays22 miEast Quogue18 miRiverside4.1 mi
| Town | Conserved | Parks |
|---|---|---|
| Flanders | 56.7% | 5 |
| Hampton Bays | 29.1% | 9 |
| Riverside | 38.1% | 2 |
| Northampton | 31% | 3 |
| East Quogue | 31.8% | 5 |
| Southampton | 10.5% | 51 |
| Riverhead | 5.7% | 32 |
Trail talk
Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Flanders neighbors.
Weigh in
Is Sears - Bellows Pond County Park the best walk in Flanders?
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Share a tip
Trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, 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.