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Yellow Fever Creek Preserve
Nature preserve
219 acres2.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Cape Coral
Cape Coral, FL parks, trails & bike paths
About 1.9% of Cape Coral is conserved land, roughly 1,442 acres. There are about 43 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Yellow Fever Creek Preserve (2.6 mi), Four Mile Cove Ecological Preserve (1.4 mi), and Del Prado Linear Park (0.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Cape Coral, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Cape Coral outdoors
Conserved land
1.9%
1,442 of 76,337 acres
Trails
43 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 6 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
44
7 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
139.4 mi
125.4 mi lanes · 14.0 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
Four Mile Cove Ecological Preserve
Park
374 acres1.4 mi of trail
Kayak Portage
Dog rules not recorded
3
Del Prado Linear Park
Park
50 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
4
Matlacha Pass National Wildlife Refuge
Managed by United States Fish and Wildlife Service
129 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
All 44 parks & preserves
- Calypso Park3 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Jaycee Park13 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Yucca Pens Unit State Wildlife Management Area6 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Horton Park5 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Randell Research Center74 ac
- Rotary Park Environmental Center62 ac
- Cape Coral Sports Complex46 ac
- Lake Kennedy Community Park30 ac · Directions
- Northwest Softball Complex22 ac · Directions
- Strausser BMX Sports Complex21 ac
- Kurt Donaldson Community Park20 ac · Directions
- Pelican Baseball Complex18 ac · Directions
- Jim Jeffers Park18 ac · Directions
- Coral Lakes Recreational Park17 ac
- Cultural Park16 ac
- Yacht Club Community Park15 ac · Directions
- Seahawk Park13 ac
- Pelican Soccer Complex13 ac · Directions
- Koza/Saldino Park13 ac
- Storm Football Complex13 ac · Directions
- Caloosa Park12 ac · Directions
- Burton Memorial Park12 ac · Directions
- Rosen Park10 ac · Directions
- Joe Stonis Park9 ac · Directions
- Camelot Park8 ac · Directions
- William "Bill" Austen Youth Center & Eagle Skate Park8 ac · Directions
- Sirenia Vista7 ac · Directions
- Jason Verdow Memorial Park6 ac · Directions
- Saratoga Lake Park6 ac
- Burnt Store Boat Ramp6 ac · Directions
- Paul Sanborn Park5 ac · Directions
- Veterans Park4 ac · Directions
- Giuffrida Park4 ac
- Four Freedoms Park4 ac
- Rubicond Park4 ac
- Reflections Park3 ac
- Bernice Braden Park2 ac · Directions
- Smiles Park2 ac · Directions
- BMX Park Boat Ramp2 ac
- Founder's Park1 ac
Who protects the land
1,442 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes125.4 mi
- Off-road bike paths14.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis83
- Baseball44
- Basketball35
- Soccer24
- Pickleball18
- Football7
- Softball6
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Cape Coral and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Coral | 1.9% | 43.1 mi | 44 |
| North Fort Myers | 7.1% | 33.2 mi | 9 |
| Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores | 0.6% | 0.0 mi | 1 |
| Fort Myers | 6.7% | 40.7 mi | 39 |
| Lochmoor Waterway Estates | 0.3% | 0.1 mi | 1 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Cape Coral'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 45.4-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.