Outdoors · Salem

Salem, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 5.6% of Salem is conserved land, roughly 1,863 acres. There are about 6.4 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Salem outdoors

Conserved land
5.6%
1,863 of 33,351 acres
Trails
6.4 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
1
714 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
1.3 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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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.
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The Georgi on the Battenkill Community Park & Museum

Park
5 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

1,863 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
3,631 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
114 ac
State conservation
5 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,858 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 43 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 lanes1.3 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis3
  • Baseball3
  • Soccer2
  • Field hockey2
  • Football1
  • Basketball1

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

Next door

Salem and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Salem5.6%6.4 mi1
Jackson11.9%2.6 mi3
Hebron0.8%3.1 mi1
Greenwich5.2%10.0 mi4
Rupert30.2%52.3 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Salem'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 28-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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