Outdoors · Ideal

Ideal, MN parks, trails & bike paths

About 3.4% of Ideal is conserved land, roughly 769 acres. Ideal has 2 named parks and preserves on the map.

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

At a glance

Ideal outdoors

Conserved land
3.4%
769 of 22,841 acres
Trails
0.6 mi
0 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
607 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
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

Crow Wing State Forest

Managed by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
414 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
2

Upgaard Wildlife Management Area

Managed by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
110 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

769 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
493 ac
State fish & wildlife
275 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
Next door

Ideal and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Ideal3.4%0.6 mi2
Breezy Point2.8%2.8 mi1
Timothy4.6%17.2 mi0
Crosslake11.5%3.0 mi1
Pequot Lakes3.8%11.0 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Ideal'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 21-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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