10 Parks and preserves
Where the sidewalk ends.
Two blocks off Greenwood Avenue the town turns into ponds and woods. These are spread across Bethel rather than strung along the street, so most of them want a car.
The map is the argument: the avenue is one line through the middle, and everything green or wet sits off it.
- Parks and preserves
- 8
- Named ponds
- 16
- Named trails
- 6
- Named pond
- Park or preserve
- Greenwood Avenue
Positions are the coordinates OpenStreetMap records for each named feature, drawn inside the town boundary of OSM relation 11052092. Shapes are not traced; each mark is one record.
On the avenue
P. T. Barnum Square
A small triangular park laid out in 1881 as Fountain Place, renamed for the showman in 1928, with Ernest Moore Viquesney's bronze Doughboy at its center.
On the avenue
Town Green
Municipal open space, free and open to the public.
Off avenue
Bennett Memorial Park
Town-owned parkland on Shelter Rock Road, open to the general public.
Off avenue
Meckauer Park
A town park off Shelter Rock Road with a playground.
Off avenue
Meckauer Park Playground
Off avenue
Overlook Park
Off avenue
Parloa Park
Off avenue
Parloa Park Playground
Off avenue
Stephenson Preserve
A nature preserve with its own named trail.
Off avenue
The Nature Conservancy Wolfpits Nature Preserve
Private, Open To Public Without Fee
6 Named trails
Trails.
| Trail | Type | Surface |
|---|---|---|
| Dog Walking Path | Path | gravel |
| Enchanted Trail | Path | wood |
| Huntington Ridge Trail | Path | earth |
| Pond Loop | Path | Not recorded |
| Stephenson Trail | Path | Not recorded |
| Pond Trail | Hiking route | Not recorded |
16 Named water
Ponds.
Bethel has more named water than it has main street. These are the ones the map records by name.
- Little River Pond
- Bethels Pond
- Sympaug Pond
- Todd Park
- Signors Pond
- Lily Pond
- North Pond
- King Lake
- King Lake No 1
- King Lake No 2
- Chestnut Pond
- Whose Pond
- Jenkins Pond
- Schatten Pond
- Hurd Pond
- Chestnut Ridge Reservoir