Denali National Park
Managed by National Park Service
3,977 acres0.2 mi of trail
Windy Creek Trail
🐕 Dogs usually limited
No trailhead mapped yetWebsite ↗
Outdoors in Cantwell
52% of Cantwell is wild, conserved land
There are about 14 miles of mapped trails.
Conserved land
52%
39,521 of 75,573 acres
Trails
14 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 6 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
named on the map
Bike routes
0.0 mi
Lakes & rivers
5
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★ What stands out · The map
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
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The longest trail network is Denali National Park, with 0.2 miles. Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.
Denali Wilderness
Managed by National Park Service
3 acres
🐕 Dogs usually limited
No trailhead mapped yetWebsite ↗
Trails & water
1 named trail and 5 lakes & rivers
Named trails
Unpaved · 1.5 mi
Windy Creek Trail1.7 mi
Lakes & rivers tap for directions
Who protects it
39,521 conserved acres
Who manages Cantwell’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources18,983 ac
Bureau of Land Management18,851 ac
National Park Service2,145 ac
State Other or Unknown · 18,983 acNational Public Lands · 18,851 acNational Park · 2,145 ac
Good to know
Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. Public access isn’t recorded for 2 of 4 parcels. The walks above are places people visit.
The biggest protected places
| Place | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glennallen Field Office National Public Lands | Bureau of Land Management | 18,851 | Open |
| State Tentatively Approved (tad) State Other or Unknown | State natural resources | 15,102 | Unknown |
| State Patented State Other or Unknown | State natural resources | 3,882 | Unknown |
| Denali National Park National Park | National Park Service | 2,145 | Open |
Next door
Cantwell and its neighbors
Cantwell has the second most mapped trails of the 2 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.
| Town | Conserved | Parks |
|---|---|---|
| Cantwell | 52.3% | 2 |
| Denali Park | 82.6% | 2 |
Trail talk
Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Cantwell neighbors.
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Trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, 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 45.4-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.