Hiking trails near New York, New York

40 official trails lie within 25 miles of New York — 69 miles in total, 40 rated easy and 0 hard or expert. Every distance and elevation figure below is computed from the agency centerline and a 10 m elevation model, not crowd-sourced.

The biggest climb nearby gains 342 ft; the median trail gains 23 ft.

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24 trails worth the drive

Trail	Miles	Climb	Difficulty	From town
White Trail	2.9	138 ft	Easy	24 mi
White	1.5	342 ft	Easy	23 mi
King Zog's Loop	2.8	127 ft	Easy	24 mi
Colonial Greenway	2.8	103 ft	Easy	20 mi
Jones Beach Bikeway	5.0	24 ft	Easy	23 mi
Northwest Central Park Loop	1.8	102 ft	Easy	8 mi
North Brothers Loop	1.4	84 ft	Easy	23 mi
Yellow Trail	1.7	80 ft	Easy	23 mi
South Loop	1.2	128 ft	Easy	22 mi
North Woods	1.0	109 ft	Easy	9 mi
Shore Parkway Greenway Trail	2.8	23 ft	Easy	5 mi
Colonial Greenway / Yellow Trail	1.2	66 ft	Easy	23 mi
Nature Trail 1	1.0	87 ft	Easy	22 mi
Cunningham Park Orange Trail	1.1	78 ft	Easy	10 mi
Unnamed trail	1.9	34 ft	Easy	5 mi
Hudson River Park Esplanade	1.9	13 ft	Easy	7 mi
Gull Trail	1.8	24 ft	Easy	4 mi
Great Blue Heron Loop	1.6	36 ft	Easy	4 mi
Kazimiroff Nature Trail	1.6	33 ft	Easy	16 mi
Fountain Ring Drive	2.5	24 ft	Easy	4 mi
Green Apple	1.1	21 ft	Easy	10 mi
John Muir Trail	1.3	22 ft	Easy	16 mi
Siwanoy Trail	1.5	20 ft	Easy	16 mi
Green Trail	1.0	20 ft	Easy	16 mi

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