Outdoors · Scott

Scott, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 7.9% of Scott is conserved land, roughly 1,126 acres. There are about 1.6 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in High Vista Nature Preserve (1.2 mi).

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

At a glance

Scott outdoors

Conserved land
7.9%
1,126 of 14,243 acres
Trails
1.6 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 1 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
1,041 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

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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.
1

High Vista Nature Preserve

Nature preserve
152 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Hewitt State Forest

Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
929 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
3

Bear Swamp State Forest

Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
6 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
4

Grout Brook Fishing Access

Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Who protects the land

1,126 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State conservation
956 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
142 ac
Town or city
28 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 6 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

  • Basketball1

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

Nearby

Scott and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Scott7.9%1.6 mi4
Homer1.4%1.5 mi7
Preble15.2%18.2 mi2
Spafford7.6%9.1 mi9
Sempronius23%21.9 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Scott'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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