Outdoors · Sutton

Sutton, VT parks, trails & bike paths

About 31% of Sutton is conserved land, roughly 7,615 acres. There are about 27 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Willoughby State Forest (17.6 mi).

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

At a glance

Sutton outdoors

Conserved land
31%
7,615 of 24,472 acres
Trails
27 mi
0.7 mi per sq mi · 19 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
named on the map
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

123
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

Willoughby State Forest

Nature preserve
4,831 acres17.6 mi of trail
Moose Mountain TrailHerbert Hawkes TrailNorth TrailWheeler Mountain TrailWheeler Pond Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead Website
2

Calendar Brook Wildlife Management Area

Managed by Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department
440 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Mathewson State Forest

Nature preserve
98 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Who protects the land

7,615 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
2,803 ac
State conservation
469 ac
State fish & wildlife
417 ac
Other or Unknown Federal Land
129 ac
Other state land
28 ac
Not recorded
5,335 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2,169 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 15 of 58 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
Nearby

Sutton and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Sutton31.1%27.1 mi3
Burke10.8%94.9 mi3
Barton6.8%11.7 mi3
Newark7%14.4 mi3
Wheelock18.5%13.9 mi2
Sheffield13.7%6.2 mi2
Westmore36.6%29.9 mi5
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Sutton'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 28.1-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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