Outdoors · De Soto

De Soto, KS parks, trails & bike paths

About 1.5% of De Soto is conserved land, roughly 251 acres. There are about 2.7 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Kill Creek Streamway Park (0.5 mi).

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

At a glance

De Soto outdoors

Conserved land
1.5%
251 of 16,546 acres
Trails
2.7 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 1 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
7
39 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
18.1 mi
7.3 mi lanes · 10.8 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

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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

Kill Creek Streamway Park

Managed by Johnson County Park and Recreation District
54 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Riverfest Park

Park
46 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Lexington Lake Park

Managed by Johnson County Park and Recreation District
19 acres0.4 mi of trail
Emerald LoopRose Loop
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
4

De Soto Wilderness Park

Park
58 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

251 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city
155 ac
County
96 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes7.3 mi
  • Off-road bike paths10.8 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis8
  • Baseball5
  • Soccer1
  • Football1

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

Nearby

De Soto and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
De Soto1.5%2.7 mi7
Lexington5.5%24.8 mi5
Lenexa7.8%19.6 mi35
Olathe4.6%27.8 mi55
Shawnee9.2%44.3 mi23
Sherman0%1.2 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about De Soto'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 25.5-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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