1
César Chávez Park
Managed by City of Berkeley
92 acres3.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Berkeley
Berkeley, CA parks, trails & bike paths
About 8.4% of Berkeley is conserved land, roughly 945 acres. There are about 17 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in César Chávez Park (3.9 mi), Berkeley Meadow (1.1 mi), and Brickyard Cove (1 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Berkeley, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Berkeley outdoors
Conserved land
8.4%
945 of 11,245 acres
Trails
17 mi
0.9 mi per sq mi · 10 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
40
8 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
53.3 mi
16.4 mi lanes · 11.1 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
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.
2
Berkeley Meadow
Park
76 acres1.1 mi of trail
Virginia Street Extension
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Brickyard Cove
Park
30 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Codornices Park
Park
11 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
5
North Basin Strip
Park
18 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
John Hinkel Park
Park
5 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
7
Berkeley Rose Garden
Park
4 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
8
Ecological Study Area
Managed by University of California, Berkeley
25 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead
All 40 parks & preserves
- Aquatic Park93 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Grinnell Natural Area5 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Willard Park3 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- McLaughlin Eastshore State Park696 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Ohlone Park9 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Harrison Park6 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Glendale - La Loma Park6 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Live Oak Park5 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Vicente Canyon Hillside Open Space2 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Dorothy Bolte Park1 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- San Pablo Park13 ac · Directions
- Berkeley Beach8 ac · Directions
- Shorebird Park6 ac · Directions
- King School Park6 ac
- Cedar-Rose Park5 ac · Directions
- James Kenney Park4 ac · Directions
- Strawberry Creek Park3 ac · Directions
- Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park3 ac · Directions
- Cragmont Park3 ac
- Grove Park3 ac · Directions
- Ohlone Greenway2 ac · Directions
- Remillard Park2 ac
- Malcolm X School Park2 ac · Directions
- Indian Rock Park1 ac · Directions
- Terrace View Park1 ac · Directions
- Thousand Oaks School Park1 ac · Directions
- Great Stoneface Park1 ac
- Horseshoe Park1 ac · Directions
- Old City Hall Complex1 ac · Directions
- Berkeley Way Mini-Park1 ac · Directions
- Ashby Place Park1 ac · Directions
- West Street Pathway1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
945 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes16.4 mi
- Off-road bike paths11.1 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes25.8 mi
- San Francisco Bay Trail (bike route)1 mi
Courts & fields
- Basketball87
- Tennis59
- Soccer15
- Baseball12
- Pickleball7
- Softball7
- Volleyball6
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Berkeley and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley | 8.4% | 16.7 mi | 40 |
| Oakland | 10.5% | 104.3 mi | 128 |
| Albany | 18.1% | 6.6 mi | 13 |
| Kensington | 3.7% | 0.8 mi | 1 |
| Emeryville | 24% | 1.4 mi | 13 |
| San Francisco | 4.7% | 153.7 mi | 157 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Berkeley'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.