Outdoors · Germantown

Germantown, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 3.4% of Germantown is conserved land, roughly 297 acres. There are about 3.5 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Germantown outdoors

Conserved land
3.4%
297 of 8,856 acres
Trails
3.5 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
4
177 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.9 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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Seward's Island

Nature preserve
27 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
2

Ernest R. Lasher Jr. Memorial Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Roe-Jan Kill Park

Managed by Town of Germantown
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Cheviot Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

297 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
417 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
82 ac
Town or city
38 ac
State conservation
27 ac
Other state land
11 ac
Regional agency
7 ac
County
3 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 211 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 3 of 12 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 lanes4.9 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball4
  • Soccer1
  • Tennis1

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Next door

Germantown and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Germantown3.4%3.5 mi4
Livingston18.4%1.7 mi2
Clermont16.7%7.8 mi4
Catskill7.3%29.8 mi7
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Germantown'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.

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