Outdoors · Taghkanic

Taghkanic, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 12% of Taghkanic is conserved land, roughly 3,145 acres. There are about 6.7 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Lake Taghkanic State Park (3.1 mi), Taghkanic Community Forest (2.7 mi), and New Forge State Forest (0.6 mi).

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

At a glance

Taghkanic outdoors

Conserved land
12%
3,145 of 25,538 acres
Trails
6.7 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
2,451 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

Lake Taghkanic State Park

Managed by New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
662 acres3.1 mi of trail
Reesa Farm (Green)Campground Loop (Green)Reesa Farm
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Taghkanic Community Forest

Managed by Columbia Land Conservancy
500 acres2.7 mi of trail
Big Woods TrailBarred Owl TrailOtter's LedgeCoyote Alley
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
3

New Forge State Forest

Nature preserve
604 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
4

Doodletown Wildlife Management Area

Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
361 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

3,145 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
3,074 ac
State conservation
1,033 ac
State parks
670 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
501 ac
Town or city
138 ac
Regional agency
1 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,218 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 2 of 34 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

  • Tennis1

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

Nearby

Taghkanic and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Taghkanic12.3%6.7 mi5
Livingston18.4%1.7 mi2
Gallatin11.3%9.7 mi2
Claverack9.5%7.7 mi2
Copake18.1%21.0 mi4
Ancram24.2%20.7 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Taghkanic'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 24.4-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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