Outdoors · South Bristol

South Bristol, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 8.5% of South Bristol is conserved land, roughly 2,269 acres. There are about 48 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Ontario County Park (18.3 mi), Cumming Nature Center (9.6 mi), and Wesley Hill Nature Preserve (3.3 mi).

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

At a glance

South Bristol outdoors

Conserved land
8.5%
2,269 of 26,788 acres
Trails
48 mi
1.1 mi per sq mi · 33 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
7
1,397 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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Ontario County Park

Managed by Ontario County
393 acres18.3 mi of trail
Black TrailBrown TrailPark TrailYellow LoopGreen Loop
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Cumming Nature Center

Managed by Rochester Museum and Science Center
706 acres9.6 mi of trail
PurpleWildernessOrangeGreenBlue
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Wesley Hill Nature Preserve

Managed by Finger Lakes Land Trust
225 acres3.3 mi of trail
Red TrailGreen Trail (Briggs Gully)Orange Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
4

Stid Hill Multiple Use Area

Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
277 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
All 7 parks & preserves
  • Honeoye Inlet Wildlife Management Area87 ac · 0.2 mi trail
  • Great Hill Nature Preserve37 ac
  • Carolabarb Park37 ac · Directions
Who protects the land

2,269 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
1,487 ac
State conservation
382 ac
County
366 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
36 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 320 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 17 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
  • Black Trail (bike route)3.5 mi
  • Brown Trail (bike route)2.8 mi
  • Park Trails (bike route)1.9 mi
  • Yellow Loop (bike route)1.9 mi
  • Green Loop (bike route)1.2 mi
  • Purple Loop (bike route)1 mi
  • Red Loop (bike route)1 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis17
  • Baseball3
  • Pickleball3
  • Basketball1

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

Next door

South Bristol and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
South Bristol8.5%48.1 mi7
Middlesex6.7%7.9 mi4
Naples10.2%26.7 mi8
Canandaigua2.9%12.0 mi5
Bristol4.2%12.9 mi1
Richmond13.1%15.1 mi7
Italy25.1%34.5 mi6
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about South Bristol'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 23.3-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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