Outdoors · Apple Valley

Apple Valley, MN parks, trails & bike paths

About 13% of Apple Valley is conserved land, roughly 1,439 acres. There are about 19 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Lebanon Hills Regional Park (4.2 mi), Alimagnet Park (1.9 mi), and Johnny Cake Ridge Park East (0.5 mi).

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

At a glance

Apple Valley outdoors

Conserved land
13%
1,439 of 11,165 acres
Trails
19 mi
1.1 mi per sq mi · 17 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
39
26 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
86.1 mi
4.7 mi lanes · 81.4 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

Lebanon Hills Regional Park

Managed by Dakota County Parks
354 acres4.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Alimagnet Park

Park
84 acres1.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Johnny Cake Ridge Park East

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

Kelley Park

Park
3 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 39 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 39 parks & preserves
Lebanon Hills Regional Park354 acres · 4.2 mi of trail · Dakota County Parks
Alimagnet Park84 acres · 1.9 mi of trail
Johnny Cake Ridge Park East55 acres · 0.5 mi of trail
Kelley Park3 acres · 0.4 mi of trail
Pennoch Park4 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Legacy Park3 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Johnny Cake Ridge Park West78 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Quarry Point Park28 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Tintah Park17 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Redwood Park16 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Who protects the land

1,439 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city
645 ac
Other state land
444 ac
County
350 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes4.7 mi
  • Off-road bike paths81.4 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball63
  • Soccer58
  • Tennis52
  • Basketball29
  • Tracks22
  • Pickleball19
  • Lacrosse16

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

Nearby

Apple Valley and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Apple Valley12.9%18.5 mi39
Rosemount3.5%17.4 mi32
Burnsville11.4%21.2 mi54
Eagan20.2%46.9 mi58
Lakeville6.8%26.5 mi69
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Apple Valley'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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