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Buena Vista Park Pond and Open Space
Park
120 acres3.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Vista
Vista, CA parks, trails & bike paths
About 7.2% of Vista is conserved land, roughly 870 acres. There are about 25 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Buena Vista Park Pond and Open Space (3.4 mi), Dawson-Los Monos Canyon Reserve (1.7 mi), and Brengle Terrace Park (1.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Vista, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Vista outdoors
Conserved land
7.2%
870 of 12,097 acres
Trails
25 mi
1.3 mi per sq mi · 17 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
12
9 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
29.5 mi
25.2 mi lanes · 1.0 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
Dawson-Los Monos Canyon Reserve
Managed by Natural Reserve System, University of California
125 acres1.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
3
Brengle Terrace Park
Park
74 acres1.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
South Buena Vista Park
Park
13 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Bub Williamson Park
Park
10 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 12 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 12 parks & preserves
Buena Vista Park Pond and Open Space120 acres · 3.4 mi of trail
Dawson-Los Monos Canyon Reserve125 acres · 1.7 mi of trail · Natural Reserve System, University of California
Brengle Terrace Park74 acres · 1.5 mi of trail
South Buena Vista Park13 acres · 0.7 mi of trail
Bub Williamson Park10 acres · 0.3 mi of trail
Wildwood Park3 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Buena Vista Park Ballfields19 acres
Thibodo Park9 acres
Civic Center Park6 acres
Breeze Hill Park5 acres
Who protects the land
870 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 113 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 lanes25.2 mi
- Off-road bike paths1.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes3.4 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis40
- Basketball20
- Baseball13
- Pickleball9
- Soccer2
- Football1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Vista and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vista | 7.2% | 25.2 mi | 12 |
| Oceanside | 15% | 41.8 mi | 35 |
| San Marcos | 15% | 64.0 mi | 27 |
| Carlsbad | 29.7% | 135.7 mi | 32 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Vista'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 20.6-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.