Outdoors · Watertown

Watertown, NY parks, trails & bike paths

There are about 3.3 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Thompson Park (1.3 mi).

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

At a glance

Watertown outdoors

Conserved land
0.7%
165 of 22,757 acres
Trails
3.3 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
30 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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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

Thompson Park

Managed by City of Watertown
29 acres1.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Black River at Huntingtonville Waterway Access

Park
31 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Black River Trail Website
Who protects the land

165 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other state land
115 ac
State conservation
33 ac
State parks
19 ac
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

  • Tennis5
  • Baseball3

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

Next door

Watertown and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Watertown0.7%3.3 mi2
Watertown12.3%16.8 mi5
Brownville6.4%4.1 mi5
Rutland2.3%15.1 mi2
Hounsfield1.5%28.0 mi9
Le Ray0.5%28.4 mi2
Pamelia8.5%4.7 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Watertown'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-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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