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Hartford Town Forest
Nature preserve
363 acres11 mi of trail
West Side LoopMoose Brook TrailPine DropWB Brown TrailSpline Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Hartford
Hartford, VT parks, trails & bike paths
About 6.7% of Hartford is conserved land, roughly 1,954 acres. There are about 57 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Hartford Town Forest (11 mi), Hurricane Forest Wildlife Refuge (3.4 mi), and Green Mountain National Forest (2.4 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Hartford, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Hartford outdoors
Conserved land
6.7%
1,954 of 29,242 acres
Trails
57 mi
1.2 mi per sq mi · 20 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
10
182 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
1.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 1.0 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
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.
2
Hurricane Forest Wildlife Refuge
Nature preserve
176 acres3.4 mi of trail
Beacon Hill LoopMonument TrailPond LoopWB Brown TrailCreek Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Green Mountain National Forest
Managed by United States Forest Service
257 acres2.4 mi of trail
Appalachian Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Kilowatt Park
Park
11 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Kilowatt Park North
Park
7 acres0.3 mi of trail
Kilowatt Park Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 10 parks & preserves
Hartford Town Forest363 acres · 11 mi of trail
Hurricane Forest Wildlife Refuge176 acres · 3.4 mi of trail
Green Mountain National Forest257 acres · 2.4 mi of trail · United States Forest Service
Kilowatt Park11 acres · 0.3 mi of trail
Kilowatt Park North7 acres · 0.3 mi of trail
George Ratcliffe Park7 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Watson Park4 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Veterans Memorial Park1 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · Town of Hartford
Frost Park2 acres
Lyman Point Park1 acres
Who protects the land
1,954 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,130 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 13 of 53 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 paths1.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis23
- Soccer12
- Basketball9
- Baseball8
- Pickleball6
- Softball2
- Tracks2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Hartford and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Hartford'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 27.6-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.