1
Riverfront Park
Park
11 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Albany
Albany, GA parks, trails & bike paths
About 4.7% of Albany is conserved land, roughly 1,671 acres. There are about 19 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Riverfront Park (1 mi), Ragsdale Park (0.7 mi), and C.W. Heath Park (0.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Albany, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Albany outdoors
Conserved land
4.7%
1,671 of 35,618 acres
Trails
19 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
42
25 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.6 mi
1.8 mi lanes · 2.8 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
Ragsdale Park
Park
16 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
C.W. Heath Park
Park
13 acres0.5 mi of trail
LifeTrail System
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Martin Luther King Jr. Park
Park
9 acres0.4 mi of trail
Martin Luther King Jr. Walking Track
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Paul Eames Sports Complex
Park
64 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Tift Park
Park
35 acres0.3 mi of trail
Tift Park Walking Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 42 parks & preserves
- Grove Park4 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Charles M. Sherrod Civil Rights Park1 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Veterans Park6 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Henderson Park35 ac · Directions
- Gordon Sports Complex34 ac · Directions
- Radium Landing23 ac
- Hilsman Park22 ac
- Cox Landing16 ac · Directions
- Ken Gardens Park16 ac
- Victory Park13 ac
- Sherwood Park12 ac
- Carver Park11 ac
- Turner Landing Park8 ac
- Shackleford Park7 ac
- Baldwin Park7 ac
- Kalmon Malone Park7 ac · Directions
- Tallulah Massey Park6 ac
- Eighth Avenue Youth Sports Complex6 ac
- Palmyra Park5 ac
- Westtown Park5 ac
- YMCA Sports Park4 ac
- Walden Park4 ac
- Shadowlawn Park4 ac
- Oakhill Park4 ac
- Dellwood Park3 ac
- Webb Park2 ac
- Avalon Park2 ac
- Engram Park2 ac · Directions
- Fifth Avenue Park2 ac
- Rawson Circle Park2 ac
- Perth Park2 ac
- Cromartie Landing1 ac · Directions
- Waddell Park1 ac
- Odom Park1 ac
- Hawthorne Park1 ac
- Evergreen Park1 ac
Who protects the land
1,671 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 780 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 7 of 83 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes1.8 mi
- Off-road bike paths2.8 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis47
- Baseball38
- Soccer6
- Football4
- Basketball4
- Softball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Albany'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 30.1-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.