Outdoors · Orwell

Orwell, VT parks, trails & bike paths

About 32% of Orwell is conserved land, roughly 10,134 acres. There are about 9.2 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Orwell outdoors

Conserved land
32%
10,134 of 31,623 acres
Trails
9.2 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 6 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
0
7,832 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

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.
Who protects the land

10,134 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
16,851 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
1,167 ac
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
214 ac
State fish & wildlife
179 ac
Joint
170 ac
Other or Unknown Federal Land
94 ac
Other state land
94 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 8,078 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 107 of 303 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
Next door

Orwell and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Orwell32%9.2 mi0
Putnam8%12.8 mi1
Ticonderoga44.1%51.4 mi10
Shoreham34.5%7.5 mi0
Whiting30%1.1 mi0
Benson25.7%4.3 mi1
Sudbury12.6%1.2 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Orwell'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 26.4-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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