Outdoors · Douglas

Douglas, MN parks, trails & bike paths

About 1.1% of Douglas is conserved land, roughly 246 acres. There are about 5.5 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Miesville Ravine Park Reserve (3 mi).

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

At a glance

Douglas outdoors

Conserved land
1.1%
246 of 21,659 acres
Trails
5.5 mi
0.2 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

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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

Miesville Ravine Park Reserve

Park
1,491 acres3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

246 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
County
239 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
138 ac
State natural resources
2 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 244 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

Douglas and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Douglas1.1%5.5 mi1
Cannon Falls2.2%3.3 mi5
Welch3.3%2.4 mi3
Hampton5.6%2.5 mi1
Cannon Falls3.7%0.5 mi13
Marshan3.2%7.9 mi3
Vasa5%1.2 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Douglas'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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