Outdoors · Greenfield

Greenfield, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 15% of Greenfield is conserved land, roughly 6,529 acres. There are about 67 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Daniels Road State Forest (16.1 mi), Lincoln Mountain State Forest (4.5 mi), and Middle Grove State Forest (2.3 mi).

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

At a glance

Greenfield outdoors

Conserved land
15%
6,529 of 43,057 acres
Trails
67 mi
1 mi per sq mi · 37 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
16
812 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.1 mi
0.1 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

Daniels Road State Forest

Nature preserve
518 acres16.1 mi of trail
Main TrailBackstretch (Lucy's Point)The RookeryHere to TherePutnam Dam
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Lincoln Mountain State Forest

Nature preserve
1,205 acres4.5 mi of trail
FawnNewt
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
3

Middle Grove State Forest

Nature preserve
465 acres2.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
4

Daketown State Forest

Nature preserve
498 acres2.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
5

Graphite Range Community Forest

Managed by Saratoga County
59 acres1.3 mi of trail
Trail 5 (Winterland)Trail 6 (Good Trouble)Trail 7 (Over Yonder)Trail 8 (Boss Flume)
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
6

Lake Desolation State Forest

Nature preserve
314 acres0.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
7

Brigham Park

Managed by Town of Greenfield
32 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
8

Wilcox Lake Wild Forest

Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
429 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
All 16 parks & preserves
  • Skidmore North Woods12 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
  • Porter Corners Town Park23 ac
  • Brookhaven Park16 ac · Directions
  • Saratoga Forest Preserve Detached Parcel13 ac
  • Saratoga Forest Preserve Detached Parcel - Brodie Higley Lot11 ac
  • Maple Avenue Recreational Fields11 ac
  • Daniels Road Soccer Fields10 ac
  • Lester Park2 ac
Who protects the land

6,529 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State conservation
8,907 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
863 ac
Town or city
36 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
31 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2,711 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 34 of 66 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.1 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball8
  • Soccer6
  • Tennis3
  • Basketball1
  • Football1

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

Next door

Greenfield and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Greenfield15.2%67.2 mi16
Saratoga Springs19.1%35.3 mi20
Milton9.9%15.2 mi11
Corinth40.6%43.3 mi6
Wilton11.6%35.1 mi11
Providence22.5%34.7 mi8
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Greenfield'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 29.2-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.

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