Outdoors · Orleans

Orleans, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 16% of Orleans is conserved land, roughly 8,056 acres. There are about 12 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Wellesley Island State Park (3.7 mi).

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

At a glance

Orleans outdoors

Conserved land
16%
8,056 of 49,434 acres
Trails
12 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
6
2,900 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

Wellesley Island State Park

Managed by New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
2,548 acres3.7 mi of trail
Dogs on leashMapped in OpenStreetMap
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Perch River Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
4,490 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
3

Grass Point State Park

Managed by New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
108 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
4

Collins Landing Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
27 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
All 6 parks & preserves
  • Dewolf Point State Park11 ac
  • Rock Island Lighthouse State Park2 ac
Who protects the land

8,056 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State conservation
4,526 ac
State parks
2,901 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
436 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
266 ac
Regional Water Districts
33 ac
Town or city
1 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
1 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 465 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 21 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
  • Sissy Danforth Rivergate Trail (bike route)5 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball3
  • Tennis2

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

Next door

Orleans and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Orleans16.3%11.9 mi6
Pamelia8.5%4.7 mi1
Clayton11.2%31.6 mi2
Alexandria4.9%7.4 mi6
Theresa6.7%18.4 mi3
Le Ray0.5%28.4 mi2
Brownville6.4%4.1 mi5
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Orleans'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 42-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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