Outdoors · Canaan

Canaan, VT parks, trails & bike paths

About 9.7% of Canaan is conserved land, roughly 2,060 acres. There are about 42 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Canaan outdoors

Conserved land
9.7%
2,060 of 21,245 acres
Trails
42 mi
1.3 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
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

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

Fletcher Park

Managed by Canaan Rec Park Committee
10 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Connecticut River Drivers Wildlife Management Area

Managed by NH Fish & Game
7 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Ethan Allen Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

2,060 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
2,753 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
801 ac
State natural resources
2 ac
Not recorded
322 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,736 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 27 of 76 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

  • Baseball2
  • Soccer2
  • Tennis2
  • Basketball1

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

Nearby

Canaan and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Canaan9.7%42.0 mi3
Stewartstown29.1%56.6 mi3
Colebrook9.1%65.8 mi5
Clarksville72.7%73.3 mi6
Lemington54.3%28.0 mi0
Pittsburg82.3%353.7 mi17
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Canaan'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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