1
Basswood State Forest
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
921 acres2.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
Outdoors · Oxford
Oxford, NY parks, trails & bike paths
About 7.7% of Oxford is conserved land, roughly 2,968 acres. There are about 11 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Basswood State Forest (2.4 mi) and Wiley Brook State Forest (1.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Oxford, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Oxford outdoors
Conserved land
7.7%
2,968 of 38,428 acres
Trails
11 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
837 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
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
Wiley Brook State Forest
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
893 acres1.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
3
Lyon Brook State Forest
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
418 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
4
Coventry State Forest
Nature preserve
317 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
Who protects the land
2,968 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 65 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 2 of 11 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
- Baseball5
- Tennis5
- Basketball1
- Soccer1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Oxford and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Oxford'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 27.5-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.