Outdoors · Manston

Manston, MN parks, trails & bike paths

About 18% of Manston is conserved land, roughly 4,077 acres. There are about 20 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Manston Marsh WMA (3 mi).

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

At a glance

Manston outdoors

Conserved land
18%
4,077 of 22,931 acres
Trails
20 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi · 4 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

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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

Manston Marsh Wildlife Management Area

Managed by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
1,830 acres3 mi of trail
T-203T-34
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Meadows WPA

Managed by United States Fish and Wildlife Service
497 acres0.4 mi of trail
T-203County Highway 172
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Western Prairie SNA

Managed by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
313 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Atherton Wildlife Management Area

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

4,077 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
USDA easements (NRCS)
1,702 ac
State fish & wildlife
1,441 ac
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1,002 ac
Other state land
583 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
316 ac
State natural resources
316 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,818 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 23 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

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

Manston and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Manston17.8%20.0 mi4
Meadows5.7%13.6 mi1
Mitchell6.8%7.1 mi1
Atherton3.6%3.1 mi1
Tanberg19.3%4.6 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Manston'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.

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