Outdoors · Applewood

Applewood, CO parks, trails & bike paths

About 21% of Applewood is conserved land, roughly 598 acres. There are about 12 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Welchester Tree Grant Park (1.1 mi).

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

At a glance

Applewood outdoors

Conserved land
21%
598 of 2,850 acres
Trails
12 mi
2.6 mi per sq mi · 9 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
72 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
2.3 mi
1.0 mi lanes · 0.2 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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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.
1

Welchester Tree Grant Park

Park
20 acres1.1 mi of trail
Willow Tree Loop
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Applewood Park

Managed by Prospect Recreation & Park District
11 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
3

Tanglewood Sports Park

Park
10 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Daniels Park

Park
13 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

598 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
County
556 ac
Other state land
253 ac
Regional agency
33 ac
Town or city
13 ac
Not recorded
446 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 3 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 2 of 13 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes1.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.2 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes1.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis12
  • Baseball6
  • Basketball6
  • Volleyball4
  • Soccer1
  • Football1

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

Nearby

Applewood and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Applewood21%11.7 mi5
Lakewood24.3%121.2 mi73
Wheat Ridge6.5%15.3 mi15
Fairmount5.7%7.5 mi5
West Pleasant View7.3%2.8 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Applewood'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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