Outdoors · Bridgewater

Bridgewater, VT parks, trails & bike paths

About 23% of Bridgewater is conserved land, roughly 7,331 acres. There are about 13 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Green Mountain National Forest (7.6 mi).

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

At a glance

Bridgewater outdoors

Conserved land
23%
7,331 of 31,558 acres
Trails
13 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 9 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
named on the map
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

12
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

Green Mountain National Forest

Managed by United States Forest Service
909 acres7.6 mi of trail
Appalachian TrailWayside Road Extension
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Coolidge State Forest

Nature preserve
261 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

7,331 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
8,001 ac
National Park Service
1,291 ac
U.S. Forest Service
1,270 ac
Other state land
1,153 ac
State parks
1,144 ac
Not recorded
701 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 5,370 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 41 of 107 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

Courts & fields

  • Basketball2

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Nearby

Bridgewater and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Bridgewater23.2%13.3 mi2
Plymouth47%41.1 mi5
Killington33.1%73.3 mi4
Barnard23.7%10.8 mi2
Woodstock16.6%55.1 mi7
Stockbridge21.3%35.8 mi3
Pomfret23.8%37.6 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Bridgewater'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 29.5-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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