Outdoors · Leicester

Leicester, VT parks, trails & bike paths

About 29% of Leicester is conserved land, roughly 4,057 acres. There are about 18 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Moosalamoo National Recreation Area (17.3 mi).

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

At a glance

Leicester outdoors

Conserved land
29%
4,057 of 13,842 acres
Trails
18 mi
0.8 mi per sq mi · 17 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
3,954 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

Moosalamoo National Recreation Area

Managed by United States Forest Service
2,679 acres17.3 mi of trail
Silver Lake Loop TrailMinnie Baker Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Minnie Baker Trail-head Website
2

Green Mountain National Forest

Managed by United States Forest Service
2,679 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

4,057 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Forest Service
2,679 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
1,571 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
724 ac
Joint
56 ac
Not recorded
223 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,155 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 25 of 63 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 Moosalamoo (bike route)9.9 mi

Courts & fields

  • Basketball1

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

Nearby

Leicester and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Leicester29.3%17.9 mi2
Whiting30%1.1 mi0
Goshen66.8%29.8 mi4
Brandon13.5%14.8 mi7
Salisbury35.9%24.8 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Leicester'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 20-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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