1
Horseshoe Lake Wild Forest
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
3,225 acres3.6 mi of trail
Goodman Mountain TrailConey Mountain Trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Tupper Lake
Tupper Lake, NY parks, trails & bike paths
About 35% of Tupper Lake is conserved land, roughly 28,911 acres. There are about 46 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Horseshoe Lake Wild Forest (3.6 mi) and Saranac Lakes Wild Forest (2.9 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Tupper Lake, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Tupper Lake outdoors
Conserved land
35%
28,911 of 82,725 acres
Trails
46 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 22 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
5,664 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
8.5 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 2.1 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
Saranac Lakes Wild Forest
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
4,673 acres2.9 mi of trail
Adirondack Rail TrailFloodwood Mountain TrailWest Pine Pond TrailWest Pine – East Pine Ponds Carry
Dog rules not recorded
3
Raquette-Jordan Boreal Primitive Area
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
31 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
4
Flanders Park
Park
28 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land
28,911 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 15,110 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 16 of 53 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 paths2.1 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes6.4 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball7
- Beach volleyball3
- Tennis2
- Basketball1
- Field hockey1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Tupper Lake and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tupper Lake | 34.9% | 45.7 mi | 4 |
| Harrietstown | 81.9% | 115.9 mi | 13 |
| Piercefield | 83.4% | 49.8 mi | 7 |
| Santa Clara | 91.8% | 149.3 mi | 8 |
| Waverly | 65.6% | 53.6 mi | 2 |
| Long Lake | 71.4% | 121.9 mi | 17 |
| Hopkinton | 49.4% | 48.2 mi | 7 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Tupper Lake'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 42.6-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.