Outdoors · Olive

Olive, OH parks, trails & bike paths

About 16% of Olive is conserved land, roughly 3,950 acres. There are about 7.7 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Forked Run State Park (0.8 mi).

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

At a glance

Olive outdoors

Conserved land
16%
3,950 of 25,196 acres
Trails
7.7 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
1
2,540 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.
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Forked Run State Park

Park
983 acres0.8 mi of trail
Riverview Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Peaks in Olive
Peach Knob755 ft elevation
Directions
Trails

Named trails

  • Riverview Trail0.7 mi
  • Natural Resources 100.6 mi
Water

Lakes & rivers

Tap a name for directions.

Who protects the land

3,950 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
3,798 ac
Private owners
77 ac
Army Corps of Engineers
75 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

  • Baseball2

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

Public lands

The biggest protected places in Olive

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
State Conservation Area 2,941 acState Park 857 acPrivate Other or Unknown 77 acRecreation Management Area 75 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Shade River State ForestState Conservation AreaState natural resources2,879Open
Forked Run State ParkState ParkState natural resources842Closed
American Electric Power - Philip Sporn ResPrivate Other or UnknownPrivate owners77Open
Belleville Pools Recreation AreaRecreation Management AreaArmy Corps of Engineers75Open
Ohio River Access - Forked Run Wildlife AreaState Conservation AreaState natural resources34Open
Ohio River Access - Shade River Wildlife AreaState Conservation AreaState natural resources29Open
Ohio River Forked Run State ParkState ParkState natural resources15Open
History

Historic places to visit

Eden CemeteryCemetery
Flatwood CemeteryCemetery
Hawley CemeteryCemetery
Heiney CemeteryCemetery
Kibble CemeteryCemetery
Pleasant Home CemeteryCemetery
Pleasant Home CemeteryCemetery
Reedsville CemeteryCemetery
Stewart CemeteryCemetery
White Chapel CemeteryCemetery
Nearby

Olive and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Olive15.7%7.7 mi1
Troy0.2%1.1 mi2
Orange0%2.1 mi0
Lebanon8.5%0.6 mi1
Chester1.6%1.9 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Olive'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 22.5-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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