Outdoors · South Pasadena

South Pasadena, CA parks, trails & bike paths

About 5.4% of South Pasadena is conserved land, roughly 119 acres. There are about 2.2 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

South Pasadena outdoors

Conserved land
5.4%
119 of 2,185 acres
Trails
2.2 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
8
5 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
5.5 mi
3.4 mi lanes · 0.3 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

South Pasadena Library Park

Park
3 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Arroyo Park

Managed by South Pasadena
11 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
3

Garfield Park

Park
8 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

San Pascual Park

Managed by LA Parks
6 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

119 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city
117 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes3.4 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.3 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes1.9 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis42
  • Basketball19
  • Pickleball18
  • Baseball7
  • Equestrian4
  • Soccer3
  • Tracks3

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

Nearby

South Pasadena and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
South Pasadena5.4%2.2 mi8
Los Angeles14.1%701.7 mi373
Pasadena13.5%39.8 mi31
San Marino10%9.1 mi2
Alhambra3.9%2.0 mi8
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about South Pasadena'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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