Outdoors · Ulysses

Ulysses, NY parks, trails & bike paths

About 4.9% of Ulysses is conserved land, roughly 1,143 acres. There are about 14 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Taughannock Falls State Park (6.7 mi).

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

At a glance

Ulysses outdoors

Conserved land
4.9%
1,143 of 23,486 acres
Trails
14 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 8 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
238 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
7.4 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 5.7 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

12
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.
1

Taughannock Falls State Park

Managed by New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
756 acres6.7 mi of trail
Hiking/ Cross country skiing trailSouth Rim TrailGorge Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Jacksonville Community Park

Park
4 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

1,143 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State parks
885 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
258 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
3 ac
Town or city
2 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 111 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 13 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 paths5.7 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes1.6 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball5
  • Tennis4

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

Next door

Ulysses and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Ulysses4.9%14.2 mi2
Lansing1.6%10.4 mi4
Enfield5.8%13.0 mi4
Covert4.9%0.3 mi2
Hector17.7%51.2 mi3
Ithaca16.5%46.1 mi18
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Ulysses'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 21.4-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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