Outdoors · Leiding
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About 8.2% of Leiding is conserved land, roughly 7,323 acres. There are about 60 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Kabetogama State Forest (18.2 mi) and Superior National Forest (11 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Leiding, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
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Conserved land
8.2%
7,323 of 89,457 acres
Trails
60 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 11 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
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
🛶 Co Rd 515 Public Water Access Site 🛶 County Road 516 Public Water Access Site 🛶 Pelican Lake (NE) Public Water Access Site 🛶 Saunders Bay Public Water Access Site 🛶 Unnamed boat launch 1 2 3 4
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Places to walk
Parks & preserves with trails
Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1 Kabetogama State Forest Managed by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
30,658 acres18.2 mi of trail
Gheen Hill Trails Cook Area Grant-in-Aid Snowmobile Trail Arrowhead State Trail Forest Rt 607 Forest Road 609
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
2 Superior National Forest Managed by United States Forest Service
7,140 acres11 mi of trail
Forest Rt 604 Cook Area Grant-in-Aid Snowmobile Trail Forest Rt 609A Forest Rt 607 Mud Lake Spur A
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Show on map
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3 Big Island SNA Nature preserve
228 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Show on map
4 Mickey Elverum Memorial Bog Walk Park
4 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
Things to do
Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more
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Boat launches in Leiding Show all on map
🛶 Co Rd 515 Public Water Access Site
🛶 County Road 516 Public Water Access Site
🛶 Pelican Lake (NE) Public Water Access Site
🛶 Saunders Bay Public Water Access Site
Trails
Named trails
Open to bikes 3.3 mi Horses 3.3 mi Unpaved 14.3 mi
Showing 1–10 of 16 trails
Cook Area Grant-in-Aid Snowmobile Trail 15.9 mi Arrowhead State Trail 6.8 mi Gheen Hill Trails 6.0 mi Forest Rt 604 3.8 mi Forest Rt 607 1.8 mi Forest Rt 607AA 1.4 mi Forest Rt 607A 1.2 mi Forest Rt 609E 1.1 mi Forest Rt 609A 1.1 mi Mud Lake Spur A 0.9 mi Water
Lakes & rivers
Showing 1–10 of 16 places
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Who protects the land
7,323 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Forest Service
7,100 ac State natural resources
219 ac State fish & wildlife
5 ac Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
Painted or protected bike lanes 0.0 mi Off-road bike paths 0.0 mi Shoulders & shared lanes 0.0 mi
Public lands
The biggest protected places in Leiding
From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
National Forest 7,100 ac State Conservation Area 223 ac
Place Managed by Acres Public access
Kabetogama Purchase Unit National Forest U.S. Forest Service 6,135 Open Superior National Forest National Forest U.S. Forest Service 965 Open Big Island State Scientific and Natural Area State Conservation Area State natural resources 219 Restricted Lost River State Aquatic Management Area (St. Louis) State Conservation Area State fish & wildlife 5 Restricted
Nearby
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Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Town Conserved Trails Parks & preserves
Leiding 8.2% 59.9 mi 4 Portage 42.2% 82.5 mi 2 Beatty 0.5% 40.4 mi 2 Camp 5 17.2% 25.7 mi 2
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Conditions & tips from neighbors
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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 39.4-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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