Outdoors · Columbus
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About 4.1% of Columbus is conserved land, roughly 5,761 acres. There are about 73 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Standing Boy Trails (23.2 mi), The South Commons Sports and Entertainment Complex (4.8 mi), and Cooper Creek Park (2.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Columbus, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
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Conserved land
4.1%
5,761 of 140,874 acres
Trails
73 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 37 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
20
28 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
50.0 mi
13.3 mi lanes · 36.7 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.
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Conserved land, trails & bike routes
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Parks & preserves with trails
Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1 Standing Boy Trails Managed by Georgia State Parks & Historic Sites
1,609 acres23.2 mi of trail
Lonely Hunter Loop Trail Primary Goods Bimini sittin' pretty Primus
🐕 Dogs allowedMapped in OpenStreetMap
2 The South Commons Sports and Entertainment Complex Park
124 acres4.8 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
167 acres2.5 mi of trail
Cooper Creek Park Fitness Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
41 acres1.5 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
72 acres1.4 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Show on map
6 Columbus Botanical Garden Park
31 acres0.9 mi of trail
🐕 Dogs on leashMapped in OpenStreetMap
No trailhead mapped yet Show on map
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18 acres0.5 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
8 Oxbox Meadows Environmental Park Park
39 acres0.4 mi of trail
🐕 Dogs allowedMapped in OpenStreetMap
All 20 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 20 parks & preserves
🌳 Standing Boy Trails 1,609 acres · 23.2 mi of trail · Georgia State Parks & Historic Sites
🌳 The South Commons Sports and Entertainment Complex 124 acres · 4.8 mi of trail
🌳 Cooper Creek Park 167 acres · 2.5 mi of trail
🌳 Britt David Park 41 acres · 1.5 mi of trail
🌳 Heath Park 72 acres · 1.4 mi of trail
🌳 Columbus Botanical Garden 31 acres · 0.9 mi of trail
🌳 Wild wood park 18 acres · 0.5 mi of trail
🌳 Oxbox Meadows Environmental Park 39 acres · 0.4 mi of trail
🌳 Dinglewood Park 15 acres · 0.4 mi of trail
🌳 Weracoba Park 22 acres · 0.3 mi of trail
Things to do
Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more
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Trails
Named trails
Open to bikes 16.0 mi Unpaved 26.8 mi
Showing 1–10 of 18 trails
Lonely Hunter Loop Trail 3.2 mi Primary Goods 2.4 mi Bimini 1.8 mi Cooper Creek Park Fitness Trail 1.8 mi sittin' pretty 1.6 mi Primus 1.4 mi Chief North 1.3 mi Kinard's South 1.1 mi Kinard's North 1.1 mi Chief South 1.1 mi Water
Lakes & rivers
Showing 1–10 of 47 places
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Who protects the land
5,761 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
3,166 ac Land trusts & nonprofits
2,150 ac Army Corps of Engineers
72 ac Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,271 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 4 of 87 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
Painted or protected bike lanes 13.3 mi Off-road bike paths 36.7 mi Shoulders & shared lanes 0.0 mi
Courts & fields Tennis 150 Baseball 79 Football 26 Basketball 18 Softball 11 Pickleball 10 Soccer 7 Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Public lands
The biggest protected places in Columbus
From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
Unknown Easement 2,909 ac State Park 1,582 ac Local Park 1,077 ac Local Recreation Area 1,023 ac Private Conservation 914 ac
Showing 1–10 of 15 places
Place Managed by Acres Public access
Standing Boy Creek State Park State Park State natural resources 1,582 Open Kendall Creek Private Conservation Land trusts & nonprofits 818 Closed Bull Creek Golf Course Local Recreation Area Town or city 530 Open Greenspace Program Acquisition Local Recreation Area County 224 Open Fall Line Trace Local Park Town or city 172 Open Oxbow Golf Course Local Recreation Area Town or city 120 Open South Commons Sports & Entertainment Complex Local Recreation Area Town or city 97 Open Hawkins (Ft. Benning Acub) Private Conservation Land trusts & nonprofits 96 Closed Cooper Creek Park Local Park Town or city 85 Open Woodruff Farm Soccer Complex Local Park Town or city 76 Open
History
Historic places to visit
Showing 1–10 of 79 places
🏛️ Columbus Historic District District
🏛️ Columbus Riverfront Industrial Historic District District
🏛️ Holsey Monumental Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Church
🪦 1828 Cemetery for Blacks Cemetery
🪦 American Revolutionary Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 Beallwood Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 Biggers Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 Biggers Cemetery #2 Cemetery
Nearby
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Conditions & tips from neighbors
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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 63.4-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.
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