Outdoors · Shelburne

Shelburne, VT parks, trails & bike paths

About 15% of Shelburne is conserved land, roughly 4,170 acres. There are about 47 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Shelburne Bay Park (3.4 mi).

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

At a glance

Shelburne outdoors

Conserved land
15%
4,170 of 27,528 acres
Trails
47 mi
1.1 mi per sq mi · 19 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
523 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
10.5 mi
8.8 mi lanes · 1.7 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

Shelburne Bay Park

Managed by Town of Shelburne
103 acres3.4 mi of trail
Walking trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Shelburne Town Beach

Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Who protects the land

4,170 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
7,084 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
212 ac
State conservation
152 ac
Other state land
87 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
58 ac
Joint
56 ac
Town or city
5 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,609 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 53 of 147 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes8.8 mi
  • Off-road bike paths1.7 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.1 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis24
  • Basketball5
  • Baseball5
  • Volleyball1
  • Beach volleyball1
  • Softball1

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

Nearby

Shelburne and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Shelburne15.1%47.0 mi2
Willsboro4.3%23.6 mi2
South Burlington4.2%40.9 mi14
Charlotte17.8%20.4 mi7
Hinesburg19.6%63.6 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Shelburne'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 26.9-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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