Outdoors · Ryegate

Ryegate, VT parks, trails & bike paths

About 9.6% of Ryegate is conserved land, roughly 2,249 acres. There are about 5.2 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Ryegate outdoors

Conserved land
9.6%
2,249 of 23,435 acres
Trails
5.2 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
2,124 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

Blue Mountain Wilderness Sanctuary

Nature preserve
818 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
2

Roy Mountain Wildlife Management Area

Managed by Vermont Fish & Wildlife
391 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

2,249 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
1,338 ac
Joint
1,043 ac
State conservation
887 ac
State fish & wildlife
311 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
242 ac
Not recorded
413 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,833 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 20 of 66 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

Courts & fields

  • Baseball1

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

Next door

Ryegate and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Ryegate9.6%5.2 mi2
Bath6%35.1 mi5
Monroe5.2%10.1 mi2
Groton47.4%33.0 mi5
Barnet15.2%9.1 mi1
Wells River6.7%2.1 mi0
Newbury12.2%15.4 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Ryegate'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 25.2-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.

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