Outdoors · Waitsfield

Waitsfield, VT parks, trails & bike paths

About 16% of Waitsfield is conserved land, roughly 2,662 acres. There are about 20 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Waitsfield outdoors

Conserved land
16%
2,662 of 16,490 acres
Trails
20 mi
0.8 mi per sq mi · 11 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
1
1,388 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
1.3 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 1.3 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

1
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

Mad River Green

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

2,662 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
3,061 ac
State fish & wildlife
62 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
62 ac
Town or city
12 ac
Other state land
7 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
1 ac
Not recorded
654 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,996 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 30 of 92 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 paths1.3 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis5
  • Baseball2

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

Nearby

Waitsfield and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Waitsfield16.1%19.6 mi1
Northfield5%23.3 mi4
Fayston27.3%42.0 mi4
Moretown10.5%9.7 mi0
Warren35.7%48.7 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Waitsfield'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 22.5-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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