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Huckleberry Trails Park
Park
19 acres0.7 mi of trail
Huckleberry Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Ruston
Ruston, LA parks, trails & bike paths
About 1.5% of Ruston is conserved land, roughly 202 acres. There are about 7.3 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Huckleberry Trails Park (0.7 mi) and R. L. Cook Park (0.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Ruston, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Ruston outdoors
Conserved land
1.5%
202 of 13,556 acres
Trails
7.3 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
11
9 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
10.0 mi
1.1 mi lanes · 7.0 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
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.
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R. L. Cook Park
Park
18 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Greenwood Park
Park
8 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Elmore D. Mayfield Park
Park
46 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 11 parks & preserves
- Garland Gregory Hideaway Park19 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Duncan Park11 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Rock Island Greenway5 ac · Directions
- Roberts Park5 ac · Directions
- Railroad Park1 ac · Directions
- Sidney Smith Park1 ac · Directions
- Memorial Park1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
202 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes1.1 mi
- Off-road bike paths7.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes1.9 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis31
- Baseball27
- Basketball10
- Football7
- Softball5
- Soccer4
- Volleyball2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Ruston and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruston | 1.5% | 7.3 mi | 11 |
| Grambling | 1.3% | 0.4 mi | 1 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Ruston'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 21.8-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.