Outdoors · Frederick

Frederick, MD parks, trails & bike paths

About 7.3% of Frederick is conserved land, roughly 1,139 acres. There are about 22 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Fredericktowne Village Park (0.8 mi), Rose Hill Manor Park (0.5 mi), and McCurdy Field (0.5 mi).

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

At a glance

Frederick outdoors

Conserved land
7.3%
1,139 of 15,693 acres
Trails
22 mi
0.9 mi per sq mi · 13 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
50
14 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
13.7 mi
0.6 mi lanes · 7.7 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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Fredericktowne Village Park

Park
77 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Rose Hill Manor Park

Park
43 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

McCurdy Field

Park
6 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Baker Park

Park
61 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5

Carroll Creek Park

Park
42 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6

Riverwalk Park

Park
13 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
7

Monocacy Village Park

Park
13 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
8

Whittier Lake Park

Park
10 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 50 parks & preserves
  • Overlook Park (City Of Frederick)7 ac · 0.3 mi trail
  • Max Kehne Memorial Park9 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
  • Maryvale Park4 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
  • Carrollton Park3 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
  • Stonegate Park3 ac · 0.2 mi trail
  • Waterford Park19 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
  • Taskers Chance Park12 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
  • Staley Park6 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
  • Amber Meadows Park4 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
  • Sagner Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
  • Little League Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
  • Mullinix Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
  • Arbor Square Park1 ac · 0.1 mi trail
  • Rivermist Park (City Of Frederick)68 ac · Directions
  • Loats Park32 ac · Directions
  • Walnut Ridge Park27 ac · Directions
  • Hill Street Park17 ac · Directions
  • Willowdale Park13 ac · Directions
  • Clerestory Park11 ac · Directions
  • Old Camp Park10 ac · Directions
  • Greenleaf Park8 ac
  • Monarch Ridge Park5 ac
  • Free Medwid Park5 ac
  • Hillcrest Park4 ac · Directions
  • Golfview Park3 ac
  • Grove Park3 ac · Directions
  • Kidwiler Park at Rosedale3 ac
  • Lake Coventry Park3 ac
  • Commons of Avalon Park2 ac · Directions
  • Rock Creek Park2 ac · Directions
  • College Estates Park2 ac · Directions
  • Harmon Park2 ac · Directions
  • South End Park2 ac · Directions
  • Memorial Park2 ac
  • Derrs Square Park2 ac · Directions
  • Hospital Park2 ac · Directions
  • Market Square Community Park1 ac · Directions
  • City Hall Park1 ac · Directions
  • Laboring Sons Memorial Park1 ac · Directions
  • Palatine Park1 ac
  • Catoctin Park1 ac · Directions
  • Schley Park1 ac
Who protects the land

1,139 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other or Unknown Local Government
609 ac
Town or city
303 ac
County
82 ac
Other state land
19 ac
State natural resources
9 ac
Not recorded
359 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 112 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 69 of 165 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.6 mi
  • Off-road bike paths7.7 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes5.3 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis67
  • Basketball38
  • Baseball31
  • Soccer13
  • Softball4
  • Football4
  • Lacrosse3

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

Next door

Frederick and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Frederick7.3%21.5 mi50
Ballenger Creek8.8%3.8 mi6
Linganore3.3%16.0 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Frederick'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 22-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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