Outdoors · Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 4.3% of Mount Vernon is conserved land, roughly 121 acres. There are about 3.3 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Hunt's Woods Park (1.3 mi), Hartley Park (0.7 mi), and Willsons Woods Park (0.6 mi).

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

At a glance

Mount Vernon outdoors

Conserved land
4.3%
121 of 2,806 acres
Trails
3.3 mi
0.8 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
7
2 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.1 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.1 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

Hunt's Woods Park

Managed by City of Mount Vernon
27 acres1.3 mi of trail
Dogs on leashMapped in OpenStreetMap
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Hartley Park

Managed by Mount Vernon Department of Recreation
5 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Willsons Woods Park

Park
34 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dogs on leashMapped in OpenStreetMap
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Scout Field

Park
12 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 7 parks & preserves
Who protects the land

121 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city
106 ac
County
59 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
12 ac
National Park Service
6 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 1 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 paths0.1 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Basketball15
  • Baseball11
  • Tennis9
  • Soccer4
  • Football2
  • Lacrosse1
  • Field hockey1

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

Next door

Mount Vernon and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Mount Vernon4.3%3.3 mi7
Yonkers8.5%23.6 mi41
Pelham2.9%0.3 mi7
Pelham2%0.3 mi4
New York16.4%496.4 mi791
Pelham Manor3.5%0.0 mi3
Eastchester10.1%6.1 mi13
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Mount Vernon'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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