Outdoors · Lansing

Lansing, IA parks, trails & bike paths

About 14% of Lansing is conserved land, roughly 107 acres. There are about 1.5 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Mount Hosmer Veterans Memorial Park (0.8 mi).

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

At a glance

Lansing outdoors

Conserved land
14%
107 of 791 acres
Trails
1.5 mi
1.3 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
3
96 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.5 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.5 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

Mount Hosmer Veterans Memorial Park

Park
26 acres0.8 mi of trail
Lookout Loop
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
2

Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge

Managed by United States Fish and Wildlife Service
11 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
3

Clear Creek Park

Park
7 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

107 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
98 ac
County
9 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.5 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Football3
  • Tennis2
  • Basketball2
  • Baseball1

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

Nearby

Lansing and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Lansing13.6%1.5 mi3
Freeman21.6%4.4 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Lansing'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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