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Ellwood Forest Park
Park
246 acres9.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Goleta
Goleta, CA parks, trails & bike paths
About 12% of Goleta is conserved land, roughly 580 acres. There are about 27 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Ellwood Forest Park (9.5 mi), Ellwood Mesa Sperling Open Space (3.5 mi), and Decker's Cabrillo Park (0.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Goleta, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Goleta outdoors
Conserved land
12%
580 of 5,050 acres
Trails
27 mi
3.5 mi per sq mi · 21 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
17
18 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
37.5 mi
31.6 mi lanes · 5.1 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
Ellwood Mesa Sperling Open Space
Park
85 acres3.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Decker's Cabrillo Park
Park
18 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Evergreen Park
Park
30 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Stow Grove Park
Park
11 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 17 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 17 parks & preserves
Ellwood Forest Park246 acres · 9.5 mi of trail
Ellwood Mesa Sperling Open Space85 acres · 3.5 mi of trail
Decker's Cabrillo Park18 acres · 0.6 mi of trail
Evergreen Park30 acres · 0.4 mi of trail
Stow Grove Park11 acres · 0.3 mi of trail
Bella Vista Park5 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Berkeley Park2 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Girsh Park28 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Andamar Park2 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · City of Goleta
Stow Canyon Open Space4 acres
Who protects the land
580 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 12 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 37 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes31.6 mi
- Off-road bike paths5.1 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.8 mi
Courts & fields
- Basketball55
- Tennis38
- Golf16
- Baseball14
- Pickleball12
- Beach volleyball7
- Soccer3
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Goleta and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goleta | 11.5% | 27.4 mi | 17 |
| Eastern Goleta Valley | 3.8% | 22.5 mi | 15 |
| Santa Barbara | 7.2% | 33.7 mi | 47 |
| University of California-Santa Barbara | 8.3% | 8.5 mi | 5 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Goleta'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.