Outdoors · Pacifica

Pacifica, CA parks, trails & bike paths

About 43% of Pacifica is conserved land, roughly 3,421 acres. There are about 42 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Mori Point (GGNRA) (3.5 mi), San Francisco Peninsula Watershed (2 mi), and Sharp Park (1.8 mi).

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

At a glance

Pacifica outdoors

Conserved land
43%
3,421 of 8,015 acres
Trails
42 mi
3.4 mi per sq mi · 27 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
17
92 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
17.3 mi
5.9 mi lanes · 5.3 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

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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Mori Point (GGNRA)

Park
124 acres3.5 mi of trail
Coastal TrailBluff TrailTimigtac TrailUpper Mori TrailLishumsha Trail
Dogs allowedMapped in OpenStreetMap
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

San Francisco Peninsula Watershed

Managed by San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
415 acres2 mi of trail
Sneath Lane Trail
Dogs on leashMapped in OpenStreetMap
DirectionsTo Sneath Lane Trailhead Parking Website
3

Sharp Park

Park
221 acres1.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Milagra Ridge

Nature preserve
218 acres1.2 mi of trail
Milagra Ridge TrailMilagra Creek Overlook TrailMilagra Overlook TrailMilagra Spur TrailBattery Milagra Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5

Imperial Park

Park
12 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
6

Fairmont Park

Park
6 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
7

Frontierland Park

Park
31 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 17 parks & preserves
  • Fairmont West Park5 ac · 0.1 mi trail
  • Edgemar Park1 ac · 0.1 mi trail
  • Pedro Point Headlands36 ac
  • Oddstad Park24 ac · Directions
  • Sky Ridge18 ac · Directions
  • White Field Park10 ac · Directions
  • Fairway Park5 ac
  • Sanchez Park4 ac
  • Sanchez Adobe Park3 ac · Directions
  • Pomo Park1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land

3,421 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
National Park Service
1,474 ac
Town or city
974 ac
County
964 ac
State conservation
34 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
26 ac
Other or Unknown Federal Land
1 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 27 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 lanes5.9 mi
  • Off-road bike paths5.3 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes6.1 mi
  • Pacific Coast Bike Route (South) (bike route)0.5 mi
  • Pacific Coast Bike Route (North) (bike route)0.5 mi

Courts & fields

  • Basketball15
  • Baseball15
  • Tennis15
  • Soccer3
  • Skate park2
  • Football2

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

Next door

Pacifica and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Pacifica42.7%42.1 mi17
Daly City9.3%8.6 mi18
San Bruno7.8%4.9 mi14
South San Francisco1.4%4.7 mi18
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Pacifica'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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