1
Finger Lakes National Forest
Nature preserve
11,026 acres38.5 mi of trail
Interloken TrailBackbone TrailFinger Lakes / North Country TrailBurnt Hill TrailPotomac Ponds Trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Hector
Hector, NY parks, trails & bike paths
About 18% of Hector is conserved land, roughly 12,660 acres. There are about 51 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Finger Lakes National Forest (38.5 mi) and Texas Hollow State Forest (3.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Hector, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Hector outdoors
Conserved land
18%
12,660 of 71,615 acres
Trails
51 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 43 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
2,610 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.4 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.4 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
Texas Hollow State Forest
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
808 acres3.6 mi of trail
Finger Lakes / North Country TrailBog Loop
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
3
Connecticut Hill Wildlife Management Area
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
Who protects the land
12,660 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 688 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 3 of 13 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 paths0.4 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Hector and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Hector'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 35.8-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.