Outdoors · Bell Gardens

Bell Gardens, CA parks, trails & bike paths

About 4.4% of Bell Gardens is conserved land, roughly 69 acres. There are about 4.3 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in John Anson Ford Park (2.8 mi) and Bell Gardens Veterans Park (1.2 mi).

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

At a glance

Bell Gardens outdoors

Conserved land
4.4%
69 of 1,572 acres
Trails
4.3 mi
1.7 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
2 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
13.2 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.8 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

John Anson Ford Park

Park
49 acres2.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Bell Gardens Veterans Park

Park
17 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Marlow Park

Park
1 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
4

Julia Russ Asmus Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Who protects the land

69 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city
68 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.8 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes12.4 mi

Courts & fields

  • Basketball10
  • Soccer7
  • Baseball4
  • Tennis3
  • Football1
  • Skate park1
  • Volleyball1

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

Next door

Bell Gardens and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Bell Gardens4.4%4.3 mi4
Bell0.6%0.0 mi3
Commerce0.9%0.7 mi4
Cudahy2.5%0.4 mi4
Downey4.4%12.6 mi13
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Bell Gardens'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-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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