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Elmwood Park
Park
33 acres1.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Syracuse
Syracuse, NY parks, trails & bike paths
About 6.8% of Syracuse is conserved land, roughly 1,108 acres. There are about 25 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Elmwood Park (1.8 mi), Thornden Park (1.6 mi), and Upper Onondaga Park (1.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Syracuse, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Syracuse outdoors
Conserved land
6.8%
1,108 of 16,309 acres
Trails
25 mi
1 mi per sq mi · 16 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
56
8 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
44.4 mi
25.4 mi lanes · 9.8 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
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.
2
Thornden Park
Park
76 acres1.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
Upper Onondaga Park
Park
63 acres1.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
4
Rand Tract Park
Park
77 acres1.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Sunnycrest Park
Park
48 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
6
Schiller Park
Park
36 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
7
Lower Onondaga Park
Park
16 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
8
Lincoln Park
Park
19 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 56 parks & preserves
- Kirk Park33 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- McKinley Park8 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Loguen Park2 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- DeMong Park1 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Firefighter's Memorial Park1 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Franklin Square Park1 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- James E. Heath Park25 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Morningside Heights Park16 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- McChesney Park7 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Comfort Tyler Park6 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Progress Park6 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Westminster Park5 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Leavenworth Park4 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Roesler Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Frazer Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Lewis Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Libba Cotten Grove3 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Westmoreland Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Climate Change Garden1 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Union Park1 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Burnet Park90 ac · Directions
- Lafayette Road Experiment Station43 ac · Directions
- Meachem Field20 ac · Directions
- Barry Park13 ac · Directions
- Rose Hill Cemetery12 ac · Directions
- Homer Wheaton Park6 ac
- Wadsworth Park6 ac
- Eastwood Heights Park4 ac · Directions
- First Ward Cemetery4 ac
- Walnut Park4 ac · Directions
- Doctor James P Burlingham Memorial Park3 ac · Directions
- Spencer Park3 ac · Directions
- Skiddy Park3 ac · Directions
- Washington Square Park3 ac
- O'Connor Park2 ac
- Wilson Park2 ac · Directions
- Sherman Park2 ac
- Lipe Art Park2 ac · Directions
- Spirit of Jubilee Park2 ac · Directions
- Forman Park2 ac · Directions
- Clinton Square1 ac · Directions
- Ward Bakery Park1 ac · Directions
- Grosso Park1 ac
- Onondaga Geddes Playlot1 ac
- Highland Park1 ac
- Sheridan Park1 ac
- Performance Park1 ac · Directions
- James McGroarty Park1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
1,108 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 20 of 51 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes25.4 mi
- Off-road bike paths9.8 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes9.2 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis81
- Baseball64
- Basketball43
- Soccer9
- Football8
- Multi-sport5
- Beach volleyball4
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Syracuse and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Syracuse'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 21.9-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.