Outdoors · Iola
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About 2.1% of Iola is conserved land, roughly 67 acres. There are about 12 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Lehigh Portland State Park (8.7 mi) and Riverside Park (0.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Iola, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
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Conserved land
2.1%
67 of 3,129 acres
Trails
12 mi
2.4 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
6
13 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
9.5 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 6.3 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.
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Conserved land, trails & bike routes
🏊 Iola Swimming Pool 🛝 Unnamed playground in Cofachique Park 🛝 Unnamed playground in Walnut Park 🛝 Unnamed playground in Walnut Park 🐕 Happy Tails Dog Park 💧 Unnamed waterfall 💧 Unnamed waterfall in Lehigh Portland State Park 🏕️ Lehigh Portland State Park Limestone Campground 🥏 Elm Creek Park North 1 2 3 4
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Places to walk
Parks & preserves with trails
Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1 Lehigh Portland State Park Managed by Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks
309 acres8.7 mi of trail
Lehigh Portland Trails: South Loop Lehigh Portland Trails: Foundations Trail Lehigh Portland Trails: Creekside Lehigh Portland Trails: Mt. Lehigh Lehigh Portland Trails: Humpty Dumpty
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
46 acres0.6 mi of trail
Riverside Park Levee Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
4 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
4 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Show on map
Things to do
Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more
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Public pools in Iola Show all on map
🏊 Iola Swimming Pool In Riverside Park
Trails
Named trails
Open to bikes 10.7 mi Unpaved 11.8 mi
Showing 1–10 of 16 trails
Lehigh Portland Trails: South Loop 1.5 mi Lehigh Portland Trails: Foundations Trail 1.3 mi Lehigh Portland Trails: Creekside 1.3 mi Allen Community College Fitness Trail 1.2 mi Lehigh Portland Trails: Mt. Lehigh 1.1 mi Riverside Park Levee Trail 0.9 mi Lehigh Portland Trails: Humpty Dumpty 0.7 mi Lehigh Portland Trails: Devils Cross 0.5 mi Allen County Regional Hospital Trail 0.5 mi Allen Community College Old Fitness Trail 0.5 mi Water
Lakes & rivers
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Who protects the land
67 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
Painted or protected bike lanes 0.0 mi Off-road bike paths 6.3 mi Shoulders & shared lanes 3.1 mi Lehigh Portland Trails (bike route) 8.6 mi
Courts & fields Baseball 11 Pickleball 8 Tennis 7 Soccer 2 Equestrian 1 Skate park 1 Tracks 1 Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Public lands
The biggest protected places in Iola
From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
Local Park 66 ac
Place Managed by Acres Public access
Riverside Park Local Park Town or city 48 Open Meadowbrook Park Local Park Town or city 8 Open Cifachique Park Local Park Town or city 7 Open East Iola Park Local Park Town or city 4 Open Happy Trails Dog Park Local Park Town or city 1 Open
History
Historic places to visit
🏛️ Allen County Jail Building · 1869
🏛️ Iola Memorial Hall Building
🪦 Highland Cemetery Cemetery
Nearby
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Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Town Conserved Trails Parks & preserves
Iola 2.1% 11.9 mi 6 Iola 0% 4.9 mi 2 Bassett 0% 0.0 mi 1
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Iola'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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