Outdoors · Norfolk

Norfolk, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 6.8% of Norfolk is conserved land, roughly 2,515 acres. There are about 8.2 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Lost Nation State Forest (1 mi).

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

At a glance

Norfolk outdoors

Conserved land
6.8%
2,515 of 36,715 acres
Trails
8.2 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
571 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

Lost Nation State Forest

Nature preserve
858 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
2

Raymondville State Forest

Nature preserve
635 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
3

Grantville State Forest

Nature preserve
766 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
4

Brasher State Forest

Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
110 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
All 5 parks & preserves
  • Norfolk Village Park1 ac
Who protects the land

2,515 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State conservation
2,388 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
90 ac
Town or city
20 ac
Regional agency
16 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 90 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 3 of 9 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
  • Rutland Trail (bike route)0.9 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball5
  • Multi-sport1

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

Next door

Norfolk and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Norfolk6.8%8.2 mi5
Louisville15.7%19.0 mi6
Potsdam2.3%17.6 mi11
Stockholm9.7%29.4 mi5
Massena8.5%18.5 mi9
Madrid6.6%8.2 mi2
Brasher34.8%67.6 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Norfolk'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 36.2-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.

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