Outdoors · Marcellus

Marcellus, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 3.2% of Marcellus is conserved land, roughly 673 acres. There are about 8.2 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Baltimore Woods Nature Center (5.1 mi) and Marcellus Park (2.4 mi).

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

At a glance

Marcellus outdoors

Conserved land
3.2%
673 of 20,742 acres
Trails
8.2 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 7 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
112 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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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.
1

Baltimore Woods Nature Center

Managed by Baltimore Woods Nature Center
277 acres5.1 mi of trail
Boundary TrailField-to-Forest TrailOverlook TrailArboretum TrailGriffiths Trail
No dogsMapped in OpenStreetMap
DirectionsTo the trailhead Website
2

Marcellus Park

Park
55 acres2.4 mi of trail
Fred's Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
3

Holdridge Habitat Woods

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

Marcellus Youth Soccer Fields

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

673 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
424 ac
County
175 ac
Town or city
52 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
22 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 251 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 4 of 10 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

  • Tennis7
  • Baseball6
  • Soccer3
  • Football2
  • Basketball2
  • Beach volleyball1

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

Nearby

Marcellus and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Marcellus3.2%8.2 mi4
Skaneateles1.4%16.6 mi4
Onondaga2%18.9 mi12
Camillus8.5%11.7 mi13
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Marcellus'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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