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Michael Ciaiola Conservation Area
Nature preserve
626 acres9.7 mi of trail
yellow
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Patterson
Patterson, NY parks, trails & bike paths
About 21% of Patterson is conserved land, roughly 4,378 acres. There are about 31 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Michael Ciaiola Conservation Area (9.7 mi), Cranberry Mountain WMA (7.9 mi), and Wonder Lake State Park (6.9 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Patterson, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Patterson outdoors
Conserved land
21%
4,378 of 20,939 acres
Trails
31 mi
1 mi per sq mi · 28 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
6
379 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
10.9 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 6.0 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
Cranberry Mountain Wildlife Management Area
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
1,095 acres7.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
Wonder Lake State Park
Managed by New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
750 acres6.9 mi of trail
Highlands TrailYellow TrailBlue TrailNorth Spillway TrailSouth Spillway Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
4
Great Hollow
Nature preserve
30 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land
4,378 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 433 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 10 of 40 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 paths6.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes4.9 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball7
- Soccer5
- Tennis5
- Basketball4
- Beach volleyball1
- Pickleball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Patterson and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patterson | 20.9% | 31.4 mi | 6 |
| Pawling | 9% | 39.6 mi | 6 |
| Kent | 37.1% | 68.7 mi | 29 |
| New Fairfield | 12.5% | 12.4 mi | 10 |
| Southeast | 10% | 18.8 mi | 7 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Patterson'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.