Outdoors · Palmyra

Palmyra, KS parks, trails & bike paths

About 2.4% of Palmyra is conserved land, roughly 1,283 acres. There are about 3.7 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Douglas State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area (0.8 mi).

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

At a glance

Palmyra outdoors

Conserved land
2.4%
1,283 of 52,577 acres
Trails
3.7 mi
0 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
7
165 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 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

Douglas State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area

Managed by Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks
709 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Black Jack Nature Park

Park
21 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Breidenthal Biological Reserve

Managed by University of Kansas
87 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Rice Woodland

Nature preserve
78 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

1,283 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State fish & wildlife
601 ac
Other state land
371 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
135 ac
Town or city
131 ac
Private owners
46 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 133 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

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

Courts & fields

  • Baseball12
  • Tennis9
  • Soccer8
  • Basketball4
  • Beach volleyball2
  • Football2
  • Equestrian2

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

Nearby

Palmyra and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Palmyra2.4%3.7 mi7
Willow Springs0%1.0 mi1
McCamish0.4%16.3 mi2
Wakarusa3.2%17.4 mi7
Franklin0%4.4 mi1
Eudora0.3%1.1 mi8
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Palmyra'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 30.7-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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