1
Mount Penn Preserve
Managed by Mount Penn Preserve Partnership Council of Governments
1,276 acres30.3 mi of trail
Blue TrailBridal PathWhite TrailSting Like a BeeDeer Head
Dogs allowedMapped in OpenStreetMap
Outdoors · Lower Alsace
Lower Alsace, PA parks, trails & bike paths
About 49% of Lower Alsace is conserved land, roughly 1,516 acres. There are about 75 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Mount Penn Preserve (30.3 mi), Antietam Lake Park (17.4 mi), and Neversink Mountain Preserve (13.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Lower Alsace, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Lower Alsace outdoors
Conserved land
49%
1,516 of 3,076 acres
Trails
75 mi
15.6 mi per sq mi · 58 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
6
313 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
1.5 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 1.5 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
Antietam Lake Park
Managed by Berks County Parks and Recreation Department
470 acres17.4 mi of trail
Twisted SisterAntietam Reservoir TrailGravity TrailTNTWizard Of Oz
Dogs allowedMapped in OpenStreetMap
DirectionsTo the trailhead
3
Neversink Mountain Preserve
Managed by Berks Nature
415 acres13.7 mi of trail
Neversink South TrailNeversink North TrailUpper Glen TrailPromenade TrailEast Ridge Trail
Dog rules not recorded
4
Antietam Athletic Field
Park
8 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
5
Rotary Park
Park
10 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dogs allowedMapped in OpenStreetMap
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land
1,516 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 19 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 2 of 35 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 paths1.5 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
- Gravity Trail (bike route)2 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball6
- Tennis5
- Soccer1
- Softball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Lower Alsace and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Alsace | 49.3% | 75.0 mi | 6 |
| Mount Penn | 0.8% | 0.3 mi | 1 |
| Reading | 16.6% | 54.8 mi | 36 |
| Exeter | 11.2% | 127.5 mi | 10 |
| Cumru | 10.2% | 103.8 mi | 11 |
| Alsace | 3.1% | 59.5 mi | 6 |
| St. Lawrence | 17.5% | 8.3 mi | 4 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Lower Alsace'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 20-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.