1
Israel Wittman Sanctuary
Managed by Woodstock Land Conservancy
121 acres2.3 mi of trail
Loop ALoop B
No dogsMapped in OpenStreetMap
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
Outdoors · Ulster
Ulster, NY parks, trails & bike paths
About 7.2% of Ulster is conserved land, roughly 1,321 acres. There are about 16 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Israel Wittman Sanctuary (2.3 mi), Ulster Landing Park (0.8 mi), and Bluestone Wild Forest (0.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Ulster, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Ulster outdoors
Conserved land
7.2%
1,321 of 18,380 acres
Trails
16 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
9
104 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
6.6 mi
3.2 mi lanes · 2.4 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
Ulster Landing Park
Park
92 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Bluestone Wild Forest
Managed by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
86 acres0.6 mi of trail
South Central
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
4
Sojourner Truth State Park
Managed by Scenic Hudson
169 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
All 9 parks & preserves
- Esopus Creek Waterway Access2 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Charles Rider Park27 ac · Directions
- Robert E. Post Memorial Park26 ac
- Charles Street Park10 ac · Directions
- Rondout Creek Waterway Access1 ac
Who protects the land
1,321 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 212 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 6 of 23 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes3.2 mi
- Off-road bike paths2.4 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes1.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Soccer11
- Tennis7
- Baseball7
- Softball4
- Basketball3
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Ulster and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Ulster'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 28.8-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.