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River Bend Nature Center
Nature preserve
736 acres12.3 mi of trail
Walnut TrailTeepee Tonka TrailTrout Lily TrailPrairie LoopRaccoon Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Faribault
Faribault, MN parks, trails & bike paths
About 12% of Faribault is conserved land, roughly 1,182 acres. There are about 22 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in River Bend Nature Center (12.3 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Faribault, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Faribault outdoors
Conserved land
12%
1,182 of 10,159 acres
Trails
22 mi
1.4 mi per sq mi · 13 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
32
48 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
17.0 mi
3.4 mi lanes · 13.7 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
White Sands Park
Park
7 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Trailhead
3
North Alexander Park
Park
97 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Picnic & Play
4
Two Rivers Park
Park
30 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Park & Trailhead
All 32 parks & preserves
- TeePee Tonka Park20 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- King Mill Park4 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Faribault Soccer Complex24 ac · Directions
- Spring Greenway Park20 ac
- South Alexander Park17 ac · Directions
- Trail's Edge Park12 ac · Directions
- Seabury Park9 ac · Directions
- Hiersche Park7 ac
- Jefferson Park5 ac
- Whipple Heights Greenway4 ac · Directions
- Windsor Park4 ac
- Meadows Park3 ac
- Stoneridge Park3 ac
- Slevin Park3 ac · Directions
- Meder Park3 ac · Directions
- Garfield Park3 ac · Directions
- Central Park2 ac · Directions
- Country Club Park2 ac · Directions
- Westwood Park2 ac
- Forest Park2 ac
- Batchelder Park2 ac
- Hulett Triangle2 ac
- City View Park2 ac · Directions
- Kinder Park2 ac
- First Avenue Greenway1 ac · Directions
- Bluebird Park1 ac
- River Trails Park1 ac
- Heritage Park1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
1,182 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes3.4 mi
- Off-road bike paths13.7 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball28
- Tennis23
- Soccer15
- Basketball9
- Football6
- Beach volleyball4
- Pickleball4
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Faribault and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faribault | 11.6% | 21.8 mi | 32 |
| Wells | 1.9% | 0.1 mi | 3 |
| Walcott | 3.3% | 0.5 mi | 2 |
| Cannon City | 2.1% | 2.7 mi | 4 |
| Warsaw | 0.4% | 1.7 mi | 4 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Faribault'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.