1
Nimham Mountain Multiple Use Area
Park
1,009 acres20 mi of trail
blue trailTrailyellow trailred trail(bing guess)
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Kent
Kent, NY parks, trails & bike paths
About 37% of Kent is conserved land, roughly 10,220 acres. There are about 69 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Nimham Mountain Multiple Use Area (20 mi), Horse Pound Brook Unit (10.3 mi), and Clarence Fahnestock Memorial State Park (10.2 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Kent, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Kent outdoors
Conserved land
37%
10,220 of 27,584 acres
Trails
69 mi
1.6 mi per sq mi · 54 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
29
792 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
9.4 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
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
Horse Pound Brook Unit
Managed by New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Water Supply
1,014 acres10.3 mi of trail
Horse Pound Brook Trail (orange)Hawk Rock Trail (red)Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
3
Clarence Fahnestock Memorial State Park
Managed by New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
1,632 acres10.2 mi of trail
Appalachian Trailwhiteblueyelloworange
Dog rules not recorded
4
Adams Unit
Managed by New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Water Supply
172 acres5.1 mi of trail
Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
5
Wonder Lake State Park
Managed by New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
407 acres4 mi of trail
Yellow TrailHighlands TrailBlue TrailRed TrailHighlands / Yellow Trail
Dog rules not recorded
6
California Hill State Forest
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
897 acres1.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
7
Mount Nimham Unit
Managed by New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Water Supply
84 acres1 mi of trail
yellow sploch + blue ribbon
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
All 29 parks & preserves
- White Pond Multiple Use Area258 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Summit Unit56 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Boyd Corners North Unit635 ac
- Boyd Corners South Unit323 ac
- Kent Cliffs Unit224 ac
- Dean Pond Unit195 ac
- Richardsville Unit190 ac
- Knapp Road Unit183 ac
- White Pond Unit168 ac · Directions
- Ludingtonville Unit167 ac
- Farmers Mills Unit161 ac
- Big Buck State Forest143 ac
- Kent Hills Unit115 ac
- Taconic Unit114 ac
- Hickory Nut Hill Unit41 ac
- North Putnam Unit30 ac
- Boyd Corners Outlet Unit29 ac
- West Branch Headwaters Unit22 ac
- Little Nichols Fill Unit19 ac
- Ryan's Field19 ac
- East Fishkill Unit7 ac
- Hill and Dale Community Park1 ac
Who protects the land
10,220 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 3,455 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 12 of 43 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 lanes9.4 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball11
- Tennis10
- Basketball3
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Kent and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kent | 37.1% | 68.7 mi | 29 |
| Putnam Valley | 38% | 71.1 mi | 10 |
| Carmel | 11.7% | 16.2 mi | 16 |
| Patterson | 20.9% | 31.4 mi | 6 |
| East Fishkill | 10% | 25.5 mi | 9 |
| Philipstown | 52.3% | 105.5 mi | 10 |
| Pawling | 9% | 39.6 mi | 6 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Kent'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 25.2-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.