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Fairfax Recreational Trail
Park
14 acres0.4 mi of trail
Fairfax Grass Path
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Fairfax
Fairfax, VT parks, trails & bike paths
About 11% of Fairfax is conserved land, roughly 2,857 acres. There are about 8.9 miles of mapped trails.
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Fairfax, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Fairfax outdoors
Conserved land
11%
2,857 of 25,631 acres
Trails
8.9 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
547 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.4 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.4 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
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.
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Fairfield Swamp Wildlife Management Area
Managed by VT DEC
12 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land
2,857 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2,582 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 31 of 122 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 paths0.4 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball3
- Softball2
- Soccer1
- Tennis1
- Football1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Fairfax and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Fairfax'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 28.2-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.