Outdoors · Roaring Brook

Roaring Brook, PA parks, trails & bike paths

About 9.3% of Roaring Brook is conserved land, roughly 1,294 acres. There are about 31 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Pinchot State Forest (4.5 mi).

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

At a glance

Roaring Brook outdoors

Conserved land
9.3%
1,294 of 13,913 acres
Trails
31 mi
1.4 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
575 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
2.6 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 2.6 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

Pinchot State Forest

Managed by Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry
1,220 acres4.5 mi of trail
Balish Spur
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
2

Roaring Brooke Gazebo

Park
2 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

1,294 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
1,220 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
77 ac
Not recorded
1,219 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths2.6 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Next door

Roaring Brook and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Roaring Brook9.3%31.0 mi2
Jefferson33.4%23.3 mi3
Moscow6%1.4 mi5
Scranton21.7%47.7 mi30
Dunmore3.2%20.8 mi5
Madison16.1%6.8 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Roaring Brook'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 20.8-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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