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Fort Harrison State Park
Managed by Indiana Department of Natural Resources
1,736 acres13.4 mi of trail
Lawrence Creek TrailSchoen Creek TrailFall Creek TrailCamp Glenn TrailCamp Creek Trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Lawrence
Lawrence, IN parks, trails & bike paths
About 10% of Lawrence is conserved land, roughly 3,113 acres. There are about 30 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Fort Harrison State Park (13.4 mi), Skiles Test Nature Park (0.7 mi), and Roche Diagnostics Employee Park (0.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Lawrence, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Lawrence outdoors
Conserved land
10%
3,113 of 30,893 acres
Trails
30 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi · 26 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
17
25 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
32.2 mi
6.0 mi lanes · 25.8 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
Skiles Test Nature Park
Park
82 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dogs allowedMapped in OpenStreetMap
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Roche Diagnostics Employee Park
Park
54 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Sahm Park
Park
62 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Lee Road Park
Park
29 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 17 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 17 parks & preserves
Fort Harrison State Park1,736 acres · 13.4 mi of trail · Indiana Department of Natural Resources
Skiles Test Nature Park82 acres · 0.7 mi of trail
Roche Diagnostics Employee Park54 acres · 0.6 mi of trail
Sahm Park62 acres · 0.5 mi of trail
Lee Road Park29 acres · 0.5 mi of trail
Lawrence Community Park147 acres
Oaklandon Youth Organization, Veterans Memorial Park44 acres
Woolens Gardens Natural Resource Area32 acres · Indianapolis Dept. of Parks and Recretion
Sargent Road Nature Park31 acres
Gardner Park13 acres
Who protects the land
3,113 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 38 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 2 of 49 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes6.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths25.8 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.4 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis101
- Baseball51
- Basketball27
- Soccer17
- Pickleball10
- Football7
- Beach volleyball3
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Lawrence and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence | 10.1% | 29.6 mi | 17 |
| Indianapolis | 5.5% | 165.9 mi | 208 |
| Vernon | 0.1% | 0.6 mi | 4 |
| McCordsville | 0% | 0.0 mi | 2 |
| Washington | 4.6% | 24.7 mi | 29 |
| Fishers | 5.5% | 24.2 mi | 29 |
| Warren | 3.9% | 8.3 mi | 21 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Lawrence'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 23.8-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.