Outdoors · Charlestown

Charlestown, MN parks, trails & bike paths

About 9.5% of Charlestown is conserved land, roughly 2,046 acres. There are about 4.1 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Lamberton WMA (1.6 mi).

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

At a glance

Charlestown outdoors

Conserved land
9.5%
2,046 of 21,526 acres
Trails
4.1 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
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

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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

Lamberton Wildlife Management Area

Managed by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
635 acres1.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

2,046 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other state land
1,140 ac
State fish & wildlife
841 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
195 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,204 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

Charlestown and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Charlestown9.5%4.1 mi1
Willow Lake1.3%0.5 mi1
Lamberton5.5%3.9 mi1
North Star2.4%4.6 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Charlestown'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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