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Prospect Park
Park
47 acres0.8 mi of trail
Moore St to Prospect Lake Bridge LoopProspect Lake to West Lake Loop
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Wheat Ridge
Wheat Ridge, CO parks, trails & bike paths
About 6.5% of Wheat Ridge is conserved land, roughly 396 acres. There are about 15 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Prospect Park (0.8 mi), Fairmount Park (0.7 mi), and Lewis Meadows Park (0.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Wheat Ridge, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Wheat Ridge outdoors
Conserved land
6.5%
396 of 6,100 acres
Trails
15 mi
1.6 mi per sq mi · 7 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
15
12 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
18.8 mi
7.3 mi lanes · 11.2 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
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
Fairmount Park
Park
11 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Lewis Meadows Park
Park
10 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Hopper Hollow Park
Park
3 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 15 parks & preserves
- Anderson Park31 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Johnson Park8 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Richards-Hart Estate Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- CreekSide Park9 ac · Directions
- Panorama Park8 ac · Directions
- Paramount Park8 ac · Directions
- Discovery Park8 ac · Directions
- Randall Park6 ac · Directions
- Stites Park3 ac · Directions
- Apel-Bacher Park2 ac · Directions
- Louise Turner Park1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
396 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes7.3 mi
- Off-road bike paths11.2 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.3 mi
Courts & fields
- Basketball16
- Baseball16
- Tennis14
- Soccer9
- Beach volleyball1
- Skate park1
- Football1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Wheat Ridge and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Wheat Ridge'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.