1
Jay C Hormel Nature Center
Park
339 acres10.1 mi of trail
South TrailWest Prairie LoopBig Bluestem LoopHeadwaters LoopRestored Prairie Loop
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Austin
Austin, MN parks, trails & bike paths
About 9.4% of Austin is conserved land, roughly 807 acres. There are about 13 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Jay C Hormel Nature Center (10.1 mi) and Mower County Fairgrounds (0.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Austin, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Austin outdoors
Conserved land
9.4%
807 of 8,611 acres
Trails
13 mi
1 mi per sq mi · 11 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
24
31 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
19.7 mi
0.1 mi lanes · 19.2 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
Mower County Fairgrounds
Park
44 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
Dresner Disc golf park
Park
13 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Wildwood Park
Park
110 acres0.3 mi of trail
Todd Park Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 24 parks & preserves
- Todd Park158 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Marcusen Park48 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Kaufman Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Community Park68 ac · Directions
- Horace Austin Park49 ac · Directions
- Schrafel Wildlife Management Area33 ac · Directions
- North Driesner Park17 ac · Directions
- Shirley Theel Memorial Park11 ac · Directions
- NorthWest Park7 ac · Directions
- Cullen Park7 ac
- Murphy Creek Park6 ac
- Bustad Park5 ac
- Sutton Park5 ac
- Fayette sherman Park4 ac
- South Grove Park3 ac
- Galloway Park2 ac
- Orchard Creek Park2 ac
- Decker Park2 ac
- Victoria's Park2 ac
- Sterling Park2 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
807 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.1 mi
- Off-road bike paths19.2 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.4 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball29
- Tennis16
- Soccer5
- Basketball4
- Pickleball4
- Football3
- Volleyball2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Austin and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Austin'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.