Outdoors · Rutland

Rutland, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 2.3% of Rutland is conserved land, roughly 664 acres. There are about 15 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Felts Mills Day Use Area (5.7 mi) and Pinckney State Forest (2.4 mi).

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

At a glance

Rutland outdoors

Conserved land
2.3%
664 of 28,951 acres
Trails
15 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 8 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
221 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

Felts Mills Day Use Area

Park
282 acres5.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Felts Mills Day Use Website
2

Pinckney State Forest

Nature preserve
220 acres2.4 mi of trail
Pinckney Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

664 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
County
288 ac
State conservation
223 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
65 ac
Town or city
64 ac
State parks
23 ac

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 7 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
  • Pinckney Trail (bike route)2.2 mi
Next door

Rutland and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Rutland2.3%15.1 mi2
Le Ray0.5%28.4 mi2
Black River2.5%1.2 mi1
Champion2.9%4.3 mi1
Watertown0.7%3.3 mi2
Pinckney41.1%7.2 mi5
Denmark0.3%1.5 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Rutland'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 25.9-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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