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Veterans Memorial Park
Park
73 acres1.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Dubuque
Dubuque, IA parks, trails & bike paths
About 8.1% of Dubuque is conserved land, roughly 1,671 acres. There are about 15 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Veterans Memorial Park (1.5 mi), Marshall Park & Dubuque Arboretum (1.5 mi), and Granger Creek Nature Trail (1 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Dubuque, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Dubuque outdoors
Conserved land
8.1%
1,671 of 20,598 acres
Trails
15 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 10 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
55
28 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
24.4 mi
1.1 mi lanes · 20.9 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
Marshall Park & Dubuque Arboretum
Park
72 acres1.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Granger Creek Nature Trail
Park
30 acres1 mi of trail
Granger Creek Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Eagle Point Park
Managed by City of Dubuque
127 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
5
Valentine Park
Park
19 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Bee Branch Creek Greenway
Managed by City of Dubuque
38 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
7
Kaufmann Avenue Prairie
Nature preserve
26 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
8
Comiskey Park
Park
7 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 55 parks & preserves
- Jackson Park2 ac · 0.3 mi trail · Directions
- Bergfeld Recreation Area122 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Mines of Spain - Riprow Valley17 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Washington Park2 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Maus Park22 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Mines of Spain State Recreation Area20 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Mississippi Riverwalk10 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Allison-Henderson Park5 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Sister City International Park4 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Harvest View Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Madison Park1 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Gerald McAleece Park & Recreation Complex75 ac · Directions
- Miller Riverview Park73 ac · Directions
- Flora Park30 ac · Directions
- Louis Murphy Park23 ac · Directions
- Welu Park19 ac · Directions
- Bee Branch Watershed16 ac
- A.Y. McDonald Park13 ac · Directions
- Softball Complex12 ac · Directions
- Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge8 ac
- Usha Park8 ac · Directions
- Gay Park7 ac
- Heritage Trail6 ac
- Westbrook Park6 ac
- English Ridge Park4 ac
- Cleveland Park4 ac · Directions
- Lock & Dam No. 11 Park3 ac · Directions
- Valley High Park3 ac
- Eagle Valley Park2 ac
- Southern Park2 ac
- Creek Wood Park2 ac
- Hillcrest Park2 ac · Directions
- Burden Park2 ac
- Union Camp Park1 ac
- Hilltop Park1 ac
- Wallace Common1 ac · Directions
- Teddy Bear Park1 ac
- Rustic Point Park1 ac
- Falk Park1 ac
- Flat Iron Park1 ac · Directions
- Avon Park1 ac · Directions
- Jefferson Park1 ac · Directions
- Grandview Greenspace1 ac
- Orange Park1 ac · Directions
- Fenelon Place Elevator1 ac · Directions
- Riley Park1 ac
- Grant Park1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
1,671 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes1.1 mi
- Off-road bike paths20.9 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes2.4 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis50
- Baseball29
- Pickleball20
- Soccer17
- Basketball12
- Football5
- Skate park3
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Dubuque and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Dubuque'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 31.9-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.