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Atherton Wildlife Management Area
Managed by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
509 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Atherton
Atherton, MN parks, trails & bike paths
About 3.6% of Atherton is conserved land, roughly 831 acres. There are about 3.1 miles of mapped trails.
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Atherton, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Atherton outdoors
Conserved land
3.6%
831 of 22,910 acres
Trails
3.1 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
1
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.
Who protects the land
831 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 314 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
Nearby
Atherton and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atherton | 3.6% | 3.1 mi | 1 |
| Prairie View | 10.3% | 6.8 mi | 6 |
| Barnesville | 3.6% | 7.0 mi | 2 |
| Deerhorn | 0.2% | 4.3 mi | 0 |
| Manston | 17.8% | 20.0 mi | 4 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Atherton'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.