Outdoors · Avon

Avon, MN parks, trails & bike paths

About 1.3% of Avon is conserved land, roughly 288 acres. There are about 3.9 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Avon outdoors

Conserved land
1.3%
288 of 21,752 acres
Trails
3.9 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
1
144 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
5.7 mi
0.1 mi lanes · 5.5 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

Upper Spunk Lake County Park

Managed by Sterarns County
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Disc golf in Avon
Saint John's Abbey Run Disc Golf CourseSt Johns Abbey
Directions
Trails

Named trails

Unpaved 2.9 mi
  • Boardwalk Loop0.2 mi
Water

Lakes & rivers

Showing 1–10 of 15 places

Tap a name for directions.

Who protects the land

288 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
251 ac
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
25 ac
Other state land
12 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 37 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 lanes0.1 mi
  • Off-road bike paths5.5 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis7
  • Baseball1

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

Public lands

The biggest protected places in Avon

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
State Conservation Area 251 acConservation Easement 37 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Avon Hills Forest State Scientific and Natural AreaState Conservation AreaState natural resources251Restricted
Nearby

Avon and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Avon1.3%3.9 mi1
Holding1.5%1.6 mi2
Collegeville5.2%6.4 mi1
St. Wendel3.4%3.4 mi0
Albany0%1.9 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Avon'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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