1
Big Woods
Park
208 acres1.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Cedar Falls
Cedar Falls, IA parks, trails & bike paths
About 4% of Cedar Falls is conserved land, roughly 770 acres. There are about 11 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Big Woods (1.7 mi), West George Wyth (1.4 mi), and Prairie Lakes Park (0.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Cedar Falls, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Cedar Falls outdoors
Conserved land
4%
770 of 19,267 acres
Trails
11 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
58
19 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
50.3 mi
0.2 mi lanes · 49.1 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
West George Wyth
Park
81 acres1.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Prairie Lakes Park
Park
161 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Eldorado Heights Park
Park
48 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Pfeiffer Park
Park
16 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Tondro Pray Bike Park
Park
26 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 58 parks & preserves
- Gateway Park23 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Riverside Trail21 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Hartman Reserve Nature Center11 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Ulrich Park116 ac
- Blackhawk Park103 ac
- Washington Park60 ac · Directions
- Leonard Katoski Greenbelt Park39 ac
- Roger Birdsall Memorial Park34 ac · Directions
- Cedar Valley Trails32 ac · Directions
- Island Park26 ac
- Central Park22 ac
- Round Park21 ac · Directions
- Tourist Park21 ac · Directions
- Robinson-Dresser Sports Complex20 ac · Directions
- North Cedar Natural Resource Wetlands18 ac · Directions
- South Riverside Trail16 ac
- Valley High Drive Park12 ac
- Orchard Hill Park11 ac · Directions
- Big Woods Lake Recreation Area9 ac · Directions
- Cedar Vally Trails8 ac · Directions
- Campus Street Park7 ac
- El Dorado Heights Park7 ac
- Sturgis Park6 ac · Directions
- Policemans Park5 ac
- Place To Play Park5 ac · Directions
- Riverfront Park5 ac · Directions
- Lookout Park5 ac
- Holmes Park4 ac · Directions
- River Hills Park4 ac
- Southdale Park4 ac
- Wilson Park4 ac · Directions
- Kiwanis Bluff Park4 ac
- Overman Park4 ac · Directions
- Sartori Park3 ac
- Nordic Ridge Park3 ac · Directions
- Kuehns Park3 ac
- Seerley Park3 ac
- Hearst Sculpture Garden2 ac
- Lincoln Park2 ac
- Lower Lookout Park2 ac
- Veterans Memorial Park2 ac · Directions
- George Wyth Memorial State Park1 ac · Directions
- Nest1 ac
- Comunity Garden1 ac · Directions
- Clay Street Park1 ac
- Pleasant Oaks Park1 ac
- Main Street Cul de Sac1 ac · Directions
- Peter Melendy Park1 ac · Directions
- Country Terrace Park1 ac
- Bessie Streeter Aldrich Park1 ac
- Avenue of Flags1 ac
- UNI Memory Garden1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
770 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.2 mi
- Off-road bike paths49.1 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes1.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Basketball22
- Tennis17
- Baseball16
- Pickleball13
- Soccer11
- Beach volleyball10
- Football10
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Cedar Falls and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Cedar Falls'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.