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Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge
Nature preserve
170 acres1.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Chaska
Chaska, MN parks, trails & bike paths
About 3.9% of Chaska is conserved land, roughly 442 acres. There are about 20 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge (1.1 mi) and Firemen's Park (0.9 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Chaska, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Chaska outdoors
Conserved land
3.9%
442 of 11,419 acres
Trails
20 mi
1.1 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
18
15 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
93.5 mi
0.4 mi lanes · 93.1 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
Firemen's Park
Park
29 acres0.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Chaska Community Park
Park
32 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Courthouse Lake Park
Park
31 acres0.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 18 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 18 parks & preserves
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge170 acres · 1.1 mi of trail
Firemen's Park29 acres · 0.9 mi of trail
Courthouse Lake Park31 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
City Square Park2 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Chaska Community Park32 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Lions Park30 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
McKnight Park30 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · City of Chaska
Sunset Park29 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Wetlands Park31 acres
Hawks Ridge Park15 acres · Carver Trails
Who protects the land
442 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.4 mi
- Off-road bike paths93.1 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis26
- Soccer21
- Baseball18
- Basketball6
- Pickleball6
- Skate park1
- Multi-sport1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Chaska and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Chaska'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.