While this site is mainly about horse trail riding in Pennsylvania, we’ve added many New York state horse trails into OpenStreetMap. These can be viewed (for free!) using several methods:

Waymarked Trails: New York

You can also use gpx.studio to easily view horse trails and create your own riding routes… FREE and no sign-up crap.

OpenStreetMap is often an option for a basemap in many riding and outdoors mapping apps, as well.

Our first task was adding the vast Otter Creek Horse Trails network in northern New York. Recently we added the sizeable Brookfield Trail System. We added a large number of state forests such as Winona State Forest, Charles E Baker State Forest, Tuller Hill State Forest, Hammond Hill State Forest, and Bear Swamp State Forest. There are a handful of county parks we’ve found, such as Mendon Ponds near Rochester, and a few state parks that have a decent number of trails. We’ve also found (with difficulty!) a number of rail trails that allow horses in New York. We will be working on other areas in 2025 as time permits. Of course YOU can join OpenStreetMap for free and contribute and improve trails you know too!

Looking at rules for NY parks and forests makes me awfully glad I live in Pennsylvania. Carrying written permits to ride in parks and forests? Presenting a Coggins test and out of state health certificate to ride in a state forest? Paying a fee and signing paperwork to ride in the county park your taxes support? Exactly what non-existent problems do these rules solve? Do mountain bikers have to certify they are vaccinated against Covid and their bicycle was not made with forced labor? Ha ha. I love the New York state park where you have to go to the office for a different park–45+ minutes away!–to get a riding permit. Genius.

Anyway, if you can stand to put up with the bullshit rules of New York state, you can view and download New York horse riding trails easily using the tools listed above…