1
Fairview Park
Managed by City of Costa Mesa
214 acres5.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Costa Mesa
Costa Mesa, CA parks, trails & bike paths
About 9.4% of Costa Mesa is conserved land, roughly 945 acres. There are about 19 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Fairview Park (5.2 mi), Talbert Regional Park (4.2 mi), and Canyon Park (1.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Costa Mesa, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Costa Mesa outdoors
Conserved land
9.4%
945 of 10,082 acres
Trails
19 mi
1.2 mi per sq mi · 14 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
30
9 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
54.2 mi
33.6 mi lanes · 17.3 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
Talbert Regional Park
Park
207 acres4.2 mi of trail
Trail DTrail ETrail CTrail BTrail A
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Canyon Park
Managed by City of Costa Mesa
35 acres1.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
4
Estancia Park
Managed by City of Costa Mesa
9 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
5
Shiffer Park
Managed by City of Costa Mesa
7 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
6
Tanager Park
Managed by City of Costa Mesa
7 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
All 30 parks & preserves
- TeWinkle Park48 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Mesa Verde Park3 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Heller Park3 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Marina View Park2 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Wakeham Park11 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Lindbergh School Park5 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Harper Park4 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Brentwood Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Paularino Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Pinkley Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Del Mesa Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Moon Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Randall Preserve1 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Lions Park13 ac · Directions
- Balearic Park11 ac · Directions
- Gisler Park5 ac
- Halecrest Park5 ac · Directions
- Wimbledon Park5 ac · Directions
- Vista Park4 ac · Directions
- Wilson Park4 ac
- Smallwood Park3 ac
- Jordan Park3 ac
- Neth Park2 ac
- California Scenario2 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 lanes33.6 mi
- Off-road bike paths17.3 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes3.3 mi
Courts & fields
- Basketball75
- Tennis69
- Pickleball45
- Baseball26
- Soccer19
- Beach volleyball7
- Softball6
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Costa Mesa and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Costa Mesa | 9.4% | 19.0 mi | 30 |
| Newport Beach | 17.7% | 41.2 mi | 38 |
| Santa Ana | 3.7% | 15.3 mi | 37 |
| Irvine | 21.9% | 122.9 mi | 215 |
| Huntington Beach | 7.6% | 18.9 mi | 64 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Costa Mesa'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.