Outdoors · Fairbanks

Fairbanks, MN parks, trails & bike paths

About 69% of Fairbanks is conserved land, roughly 31,620 acres. There are about 20 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Superior National Forest (14 mi).

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

At a glance

Fairbanks outdoors

Conserved land
69%
31,620 of 45,929 acres
Trails
20 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 14 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
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

12
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

Superior National Forest

Managed by United States Forest Service
29,294 acres14 mi of trail
Forest Rt 416Hagstrom TrailForest Rt 119
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
2

Cloquet Valley State Forest

Managed by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
1,016 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Who protects the land

31,620 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Forest Service
29,347 ac
State natural resources
2,388 ac
State fish & wildlife
54 ac
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

Fairbanks and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Fairbanks68.8%19.8 mi2
Ault8.3%35.8 mi2
Bassett69.4%52.1 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Fairbanks'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 27.4-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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