Hiking routes around New York City, New York

One long-distance trail passes through: Empire State Trail (739 mi). Lenape Trail has more of its length here than any other route: 19 mi within 20 mi. Most of the 148 local routes are short walks: 136 of them are under 6 mi. Operators named on the routes listed here include Empire State Trail and New York-New Jersey Trail Conference.

• Lenape TrailRegional19 mi within 20 miNew York-New Jersey Trail Conference
• Empire State TrailNational · EST16 mi within 20 mi · 739 mi in all · New York City to Buffalo
• Hudson Valley Greenway TrailRegional · HVGT16 mi within 20 mi · 188 mi in all · The Battery, New York City to AlbanyEmpire State Trail
• Hudson Valley Greenway Trail (The Battery, NYC to Inwood)Local · HVGT13 mi within 20 mi · The Battery, NYC to Inwood
• Long PathLocal11 mi within 20 mi
• Long Path - Section 1Local11 mi within 20 mi · about 15 mi in all
• Shore TrailLocal9.9 mi within 20 mi · about 10 mi in all
• Lenape Trail - SMR SpurLocal8.1 mi within 20 mi
• Greenbelt Blue TrailLocal8.1 mi within 20 mi
• Old Croton Aqueduct TrailLocal · OCA8.1 mi within 20 mi
• Greenbelt White TrailLocal5.3 mi within 20 mi
• South County TrailwayLocal · SCT5 mi within 20 mi · about 15 mi in all

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

• Routes from Waymarked Trails, which draws the hiking routes mapped on OpenStreetMap (data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); counted on Oct 19, 2026.
• Only routes someone has mapped as a route on OpenStreetMap are counted. Signposted paths no one has mapped, and walks without waymarks, are not.
• Lengths within 20 mi are measured on Waymarked Trails’ simplified lines and take in a route’s branches and variants; a path two routes share counts for each. A route’s length in all follows its main line along the mapped ways, and those marked “about” come from the simplified lines.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Hiking routes