Outdoors · Foster

Foster, PA parks, trails & bike paths

About 15% of Foster is conserved land, roughly 4,357 acres. There are about 27 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in State Game Lands Number 149 (12.2 mi) and Lehigh Gorge State Park (0.7 mi).

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

At a glance

Foster outdoors

Conserved land
15%
4,357 of 28,597 acres
Trails
27 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi · 16 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
1,264 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 4.0 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

State Game Lands Number 149

Managed by Pennsylvania Game Commission
1,978 acres12.2 mi of trail
Drifton BranchHays Creek Branch
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Lehigh Gorge State Park

Managed by Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks
150 acres0.7 mi of trail
Hays Creek Branch
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead Website
3

State Game Lands Number 187

Managed by Pennsylvania Game Commission
1,585 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

4,357 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State fish & wildlife
5,846 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
3,322 ac
Joint
410 ac
State parks
336 ac
State natural resources
150 ac
Other state land
85 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
1 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 6 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. 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 paths4.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball2

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

Nearby

Foster and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Foster15.2%26.9 mi3
Kidder49.3%66.2 mi5
Dennison50.4%39.7 mi5
White Haven17.6%0.7 mi1
Jeddo0%0.0 mi1
Hazle4.3%28.6 mi8
Butler10.9%9.6 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Foster'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 28.2-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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