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Minnetrista
Park
36 acres1.7 mi of trail
Minnetrista Nature Area TrailOakhurst Garden Path
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Center
Center, IN parks, trails & bike paths
About 2.3% of Center is conserved land, roughly 518 acres. There are about 7.0 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Minnetrista (1.7 mi) and Dutro-Ernst Woods (1.2 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Center, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Center outdoors
Conserved land
2.3%
518 of 22,106 acres
Trails
7.0 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
24
8 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
25.0 mi
6.5 mi lanes · 17.4 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
Dutro-Ernst Woods
Managed by Red-tail Land Conservancy
32 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
John Craddock Wetlands Nature Preserve
Managed by Ret Tail Conservancy
23 acres0.4 mi of trail
Craddock Wetlands Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Ball Community Park
Park
10 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Heekin Park
Park
59 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Tuhey Park
Managed by City of Muncie
10 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 24 parks & preserves
- Cooley Park5 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Mansfield Park22 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Washington Park1 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- McCulloch Park86 ac · Directions
- Westside Park22 ac · Directions
- Hughes Nature Preserve13 ac · Directions
- Thomas Park9 ac · Directions
- Rose Park6 ac · Directions
- Cowing Park4 ac
- Aultshire Park4 ac
- Riverview Park4 ac
- Maring-Hunt Park3 ac · Directions
- Halteman Park3 ac · Directions
- Guthrie Park3 ac
- Jack's Park2 ac · Directions
- Canan Commons2 ac · Directions
- Morningside Park1 ac · Directions
- Matthews Park1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
518 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes6.5 mi
- Off-road bike paths17.4 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes1.2 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis53
- Basketball25
- Baseball21
- Beach volleyball9
- Soccer7
- Pickleball4
- Football4
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Center and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Center'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.