1
Foothills State Forest
Managed by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
13,125 acres1.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
Outdoors · Ansel
Ansel, MN parks, trails & bike paths
About 12% of Ansel is conserved land, roughly 2,630 acres. There are about 2.7 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Foothills State Forest (1.1 mi) and Foot Hills State Forest (0.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Ansel, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Ansel outdoors
Conserved land
12%
2,630 of 22,706 acres
Trails
2.7 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
named on the map
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
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.
2
Foot Hills State Forest
Managed by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
2,610 acres0.7 mi of trail
Snoway 1
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
Who protects the land
2,630 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Next door
Ansel and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Ansel'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.