Outdoors · Sterling

Sterling, PA parks, trails & bike paths

About 7% of Sterling is conserved land, roughly 1,211 acres. There are about 1.2 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Sterling outdoors

Conserved land
7%
1,211 of 17,328 acres
Trails
1.2 mi
0 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
861 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

State Game Lands Number 312

Managed by Pennsylvania Game Commission
1,083 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Pinchot State Forest

Managed by Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry
4 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Who protects the land

1,211 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State fish & wildlife
2,214 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
252 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
10 ac
State natural resources
4 ac
Not recorded
1,137 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 63 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 3 of 13 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 paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Nearby

Sterling and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Sterling7%1.2 mi2
Salem3.7%2.8 mi1
Greene17.7%31.6 mi3
Dreher4.1%2.2 mi2
Lehigh43%5.2 mi3
Madison16.1%6.8 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Sterling'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 21.9-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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