Outdoors · Highland

Highland, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 8.9% of Highland is conserved land, roughly 2,943 acres. There are about 10 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Minisink Battlefield County Park (1.7 mi).

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

At a glance

Highland outdoors

Conserved land
8.9%
2,943 of 33,029 acres
Trails
10 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
1,317 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

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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

Minisink Battlefield County Park

Park
57 acres1.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Hickok Brook Multiple Use Area

Park
1,025 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
3

Sullivan Forest Preserve Detached Parcel

Nature preserve
50 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
4

Mongaup Valley Wildlife Management Area

Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
16 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Who protects the land

2,943 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State conservation
2,913 ac
County
24 ac
National Park Service
7 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,098 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 6 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

  • Baseball1

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

Next door

Highland and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Highland8.9%10.4 mi4
Shohola38.5%15.8 mi7
Lumberland21.4%7.6 mi2
Tusten0.4%18.5 mi3
Lackawaxen19.1%29.4 mi6
Bethel4.1%26.7 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Highland'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 33.5-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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