Outdoors · Ross

Ross, PA parks, trails & bike paths

About 20% of Ross is conserved land, roughly 2,867 acres. There are about 6.9 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge (2.1 mi), State Game Lands Number 168 (1.7 mi), and Ross Township Park (0.7 mi).

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

At a glance

Ross outdoors

Conserved land
20%
2,867 of 14,593 acres
Trails
6.9 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 6 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
522 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.
1

Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Managed by United States Fish and Wildlife Service
541 acres2.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

State Game Lands Number 168

Managed by Pennsylvania Game Commission
763 acres1.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Ross Township Park

Managed by Ross Township
43 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Saylorsburg Playground

Park
9 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

2,867 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
County
3,472 ac
State fish & wildlife
1,526 ac
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1,100 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
566 ac
National Park Service
259 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
62 ac
Town or city
10 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,230 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 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.

Nearby

Ross and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Ross19.6%6.9 mi4
Bushkill26%28.4 mi8
Hamilton25.4%9.2 mi4
Eldred21.6%7.2 mi4
Chestnuthill20.2%26.1 mi7
Plainfield29.5%5.9 mi9
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Ross'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 20.5-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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