Outdoors · Cedar Key

Cedar Key, FL parks, trails & bike paths

About 1.3% of Cedar Key is conserved land, roughly 18 acres. There are about 1.8 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Cedar Key outdoors

Conserved land
1.3%
18 of 1,394 acres
Trails
1.8 mi
0.8 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
4
named on the map
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 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

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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

Cedar Key Museum State Park

Managed by Florida State Parks
9 acres0.4 mi of trail
Whitman Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Cedar Key Scrub State Reserve

Managed by Florida Park Service
7 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
3

Cemetery Point Park

Park
4 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Lil' Shark Park

Park
2 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Beaches in Cedar Key
City BeachIn Lil' Shark Park
Directions
Unnamed beach
Directions
Unnamed beach
Directions
Unnamed beach
Directions
Unnamed beach
Directions
Unnamed beach
Directions
Trails

Named trails

  • Whitman Trail0.3 mi
  • Cedar Key Railroad Nature Trail0.3 mi
  • Franko Circle0.1 mi
Who protects the land

18 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State parks
17 ac
Joint
1 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 3 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis2
  • Basketball1

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

Public lands

The biggest protected places in Cedar Key

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
State Park 10 acState Conservation Area 7 acConservation Easement 1 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Cedar Key Museum State ParkState ParkState parks10Open
Cedar Key Scrub State ReserveState Conservation AreaState parks7Open
History

Historic places to visit

John Muir At Cedar KeyIn Cedar Key Museum State Park · Plaque
Cedar Key CemeteryCemetery
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Cedar Key'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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