Outdoors · Strafford

Strafford, VT parks, trails & bike paths

About 20% of Strafford is conserved land, roughly 5,636 acres. There are about 24 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Cobb Town Forest (2 mi) and Kibling Hill WMA (1.6 mi).

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

At a glance

Strafford outdoors

Conserved land
20%
5,636 of 28,150 acres
Trails
24 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi · 6 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
6
4,108 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

Cobb Town Forest

Nature preserve
100 acres2 mi of trail
Fen TrailEast LoopCobb Hill Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Strafford Town Forest Trailhead Parking Website
2

Kibling Hill Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
901 acres1.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Clover Hill Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
489 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Clover Hill Wildlife Management Area
4

Podunk Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
885 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

5,636 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
5,822 ac
State fish & wildlife
1,797 ac
Joint
228 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
99 ac
Not recorded
1,524 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 4,111 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 15 of 65 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

  • Tennis4
  • Soccer2

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

Nearby

Strafford and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Strafford20%24.3 mi6
Tunbridge4.9%8.3 mi1
Sharon20.5%28.5 mi4
Vershire12.7%17.6 mi1
Thetford16.6%65.3 mi7
West Fairlee7.4%12.5 mi0
Royalton4.5%7.6 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Strafford'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 28.3-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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