Outdoors · Franklin

Franklin, VT parks, trails & bike paths

About 12% of Franklin is conserved land, roughly 3,083 acres. There are about 4.7 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Franklin outdoors

Conserved land
12%
3,083 of 25,980 acres
Trails
4.7 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
1
1,939 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

Lake Carmi State Park

Nature preserve
555 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

3,083 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
4,053 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
1,408 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
587 ac
State natural resources
4 ac
Not recorded
735 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2,348 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 25 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
Nearby

Franklin and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Franklin11.9%4.7 mi1
Berkshire8.9%6.3 mi0
Highgate23.1%11.5 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Franklin'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 23.9-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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