Outdoors · Preble

Preble, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 15% of Preble is conserved land, roughly 2,661 acres. There are about 18 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Heiberg Memorial Forest (13 mi).

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

At a glance

Preble outdoors

Conserved land
15%
2,661 of 17,534 acres
Trails
18 mi
0.7 mi per sq mi · 13 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
2,314 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

12
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

Heiberg Memorial Forest

Managed by State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
2,256 acres13 mi of trail
Pond 3 TrailPond 2 Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Dwyer Memorial Park

Park
56 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

2,661 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other state land
2,234 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
354 ac
County
55 ac
Town or city
17 ac
State conservation
1 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 354 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 2 of 5 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

  • Basketball2
  • Baseball2

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

Nearby

Preble and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Preble15.2%18.2 mi2
Homer1.4%1.5 mi7
Tully2.6%11.6 mi7
Scott7.9%1.6 mi4
Truxton14.7%15.6 mi7
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Preble'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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