1
Delaware Canal State Park
Managed by Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks
298 acres4.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Lower Makefield
Lower Makefield, PA parks, trails & bike paths
About 20% of Lower Makefield is conserved land, roughly 2,360 acres. There are about 21 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Delaware Canal State Park (4.5 mi), 5 Mile Woods (4.3 mi), and Garden of Reflection (2 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Lower Makefield, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Lower Makefield outdoors
Conserved land
20%
2,360 of 11,637 acres
Trails
21 mi
1.1 mi per sq mi · 14 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
9
70 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
19.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 19.0 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
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
5 Mile Woods
Managed by Lower Makefield Township
248 acres4.3 mi of trail
Five Mile TrailEvergreen TrailCreek TrailFall Line TrailHeath Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Garden of Reflection
Managed by 9-11memorialgarden.org
59 acres2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Fred Allen Softball Complex
Park
11 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 9 parks & preserves
Delaware Canal State Park298 acres · 4.5 mi of trail · Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks
5 Mile Woods248 acres · 4.3 mi of trail · Lower Makefield Township
Garden of Reflection59 acres · 2 mi of trail · 9-11memorialgarden.org
Fred Allen Softball Complex11 acres · 0.3 mi of trail
Lower Makefield Open Space3 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Macclesfield Park74 acres
Deerbrook Creek Park47 acres
Veterans Square2 acres · Lower Makefield Township
Deerbrook Square2 acres
Who protects the land
2,360 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 558 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 60 of 157 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 paths19.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis31
- Golf23
- Soccer20
- Baseball14
- Basketball5
- Softball3
- Volleyball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Lower Makefield and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Makefield | 20.3% | 20.6 mi | 9 |
| Yardley | 4.7% | 2.3 mi | 3 |
| Newtown | 17.7% | 6.2 mi | 6 |
| Upper Makefield | 27.4% | 7.1 mi | 4 |
| Falls | 6% | 6.3 mi | 12 |
| Ewing | 11.6% | 10.2 mi | 6 |
| Middletown | 20.2% | 20.9 mi | 12 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Lower Makefield'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.