Outdoors · Burke

Burke, VT parks, trails & bike paths

About 11% of Burke is conserved land, roughly 2,325 acres. There are about 95 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Darling State Park (11 mi).

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

At a glance

Burke outdoors

Conserved land
11%
2,325 of 21,428 acres
Trails
95 mi
2.8 mi per sq mi · 14 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
1,765 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

123
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

Darling State Park

Nature preserve
1,507 acres11 mi of trail
DH TrailRed TrailUpper J-BarJ-Bar TrailWest Peak Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Victory State Forest

Nature preserve
16 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Darling Memorial Park

Park
6 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

2,325 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
888 ac
State parks
462 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
197 ac
Not recorded
1,545 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 779 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 11 of 34 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
  • MTB Burke Area (bike route)58 mi
  • DH Trail (bike route)1.9 mi
  • Roly Grail (bike route)0.6 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball1
  • Tennis1

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

Next door

Burke and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Burke10.8%94.9 mi3
Sutton31.1%27.1 mi3
Kirby3.3%8.8 mi2
Lyndon4.3%47.2 mi3
East Haven75.1%25.3 mi0
Newark7%14.4 mi3
Victory74.4%45.4 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Burke'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 25.9-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.

Places in Burke → · Living in Burke →

You’re browsing

Burke

Vermont · VT · Caledonia County
View town boundary →
Township / city / CDP overlaps possible.
Loading boundary…

Burke is your selected town. The feed includes posts assigned to this town, not a distance radius or ZIP code.

Neighborhoods narrow the feed further, while townwide announcements, events, and issues remain visible.

Boundary source: https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/Places_CouSub_ConCity_SubMCD/MapServer/15 · 2025-01-01