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Woodland Trails Regional Park
Nature preserve
376 acres8 mi of trail
Wash Pond FlatsScouring Rush RunThe Old "X"Top of the WorldStony Rollers
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Elk River
Elk River, MN parks, trails & bike paths
About 3.9% of Elk River is conserved land, roughly 1,082 acres. There are about 19 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Woodland Trails Regional Park (8 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Elk River, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Elk River outdoors
Conserved land
3.9%
1,082 of 27,850 acres
Trails
19 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 9 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
19
40 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
37.8 mi
0.3 mi lanes · 37.5 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
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
William H. Houlton Conservation Area
Nature preserve
342 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Hillside Park
Managed by City of Elk River
77 acres
Dog rules not recorded
4
Camp Cozy Park
Park
39 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 19 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 19 parks & preserves
Woodland Trails Regional Park376 acres · 8 mi of trail
Lion John Weicht Park32 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Dave Anderson Athletic Complex10 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Country Crossing Park3 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
William H. Houlton Conservation Area342 acres
Hillside Park77 acres · City of Elk River
Camp Cozy Park39 acres
Burr Oak Park27 acres
Harris Island Park20 acres
Alba Ridge Park19 acres
Who protects the land
1,082 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.3 mi
- Off-road bike paths37.5 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis17
- Baseball13
- Basketball9
- Soccer1
- Football1
- Tracks1
- Beach volleyball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Elk River and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Elk River'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 24.7-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.