Outdoors · Safford

Safford, AZ parks, trails & bike paths

About 11% of Safford is conserved land, roughly 679 acres. There are about 40 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Dry Lake Park (13.5 mi).

Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Safford, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

At a glance

Safford outdoors

Conserved land
11%
679 of 5,943 acres
Trails
40 mi
4.3 mi per sq mi · 15 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
8
66 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.4 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 4.4 mi off-road paths

Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

Map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

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Tap a number or a place below to zoom in© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Dry Lake Park

Managed by City of Safford
628 acres13.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Firth Park

Managed by City of Safford
7 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo City of Safford Public Parking Website
3

14th Avenue And El Paso Boulevard Park

Managed by City of Safford
5 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
4

Central Avenue Play Area

Managed by City of Safford
3 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

679 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city
647 ac
State Department of Land
18 ac
Bureau of Land Management
13 ac
Private owners
2 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths4.4 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Basketball14
  • Tennis9
  • Baseball6
  • Football2
  • Tracks2
  • Beach volleyball2
  • Soccer1

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Nearby

Safford and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Safford11.4%40.3 mi8
Thatcher0.9%32.3 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Safford's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.

Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (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 20.7-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.

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