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Court House Square Park
Park
8 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Merced
Merced, CA parks, trails & bike paths
About 1.9% of Merced is conserved land, roughly 310 acres. There are about 11 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Court House Square Park (0.6 mi), Rahilly Park (0.5 mi), and Applegate Park (0.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Merced, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Merced outdoors
Conserved land
1.9%
310 of 16,571 acres
Trails
11 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
34
3 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
37.6 mi
16.2 mi lanes · 21.3 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
Rahilly Park
Park
27 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
3
Applegate Park
Park
27 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Rudolph Joseph Merino Park
Park
9 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
5
Elmer Murchie Park
Park
4 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
6
Fahrens Park
Park
63 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
All 34 parks & preserves
- Flanagan Park3 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Brooks Park3 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Merced County Fairgrounds41 ac
- Merced Regional Sports Complex37 ac · Directions
- Joe Herb Park23 ac · Directions
- Youth Sports Complex13 ac · Directions
- Bear Creek Park10 ac
- Dwight Amey Park10 ac
- Ada Givens Park9 ac
- McNamara Park9 ac
- Sante Fe Park8 ac
- Richard Bernasconi Neighborhood Park8 ac
- Civic Ballpark7 ac
- Davenport Park7 ac
- Black Rascal Strip Park7 ac
- Bob Carpenter Park6 ac
- Carol Gabriault Park5 ac · Directions
- Gilbert Macias Park5 ac
- Burbank Park4 ac
- Santa Fe Park4 ac
- Stephen Leonard Park3 ac · Directions
- Macready Park3 ac · Directions
- William Lloyd Garrison2 ac
- Merced County Preserve1 ac
- Benjamin Banneker Memorial Park1 ac
- Stephen Gray Park1 ac
- Frederick Douglass Park1 ac
- Dennis Chavez Park1 ac
Who protects the land
310 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes16.2 mi
- Off-road bike paths21.3 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis46
- Basketball43
- Baseball16
- Pickleball14
- Soccer8
- Softball2
- Multi-sport1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Merced and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merced | 1.9% | 10.9 mi | 34 |
| Franklin | 0.3% | 2.8 mi | 0 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Merced'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 29.9-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.