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Fort Snelling State Park
Managed by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
840 acres4.3 mi of trail
Mendota Trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Mendota Heights
Mendota Heights, MN parks, trails & bike paths
About 17% of Mendota Heights is conserved land, roughly 1,064 acres. There are about 8.3 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Fort Snelling State Park (4.3 mi), Dodge Nature Center (2.4 mi), and Pilot Knob Preservation Site (0.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Mendota Heights, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Mendota Heights outdoors
Conserved land
17%
1,064 of 6,392 acres
Trails
8.3 mi
0.8 mi per sq mi · 6 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
17
92 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
32.5 mi
2.0 mi lanes · 30.5 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
Dodge Nature Center
Nature preserve
163 acres2.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Pilot Knob Preservation Site
Nature preserve
25 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
4
Copperfield Ponds Park
Park
31 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 17 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 17 parks & preserves
Fort Snelling State Park840 acres · 4.3 mi of trail · Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Dodge Nature Center163 acres · 2.4 mi of trail
Pilot Knob Preservation Site25 acres · 0.5 mi of trail
Copperfield Ponds Park31 acres · 0.3 mi of trail
Mendakota Park18 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Kensington Park9 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Friendly Marsh Park46 acres
Rogers Lake Park28 acres
Wentworth Park25 acres
Friendly Hills Park16 acres
Who protects the land
1,064 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 34 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes2.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths30.5 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis31
- Baseball24
- Soccer14
- Basketball6
- Softball4
- Tracks4
- Football2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Mendota Heights and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mendota Heights | 16.7% | 8.3 mi | 17 |
| Lilydale | 38.8% | 0.4 mi | 2 |
| Mendota | 18.2% | 0.0 mi | 1 |
| Eagan | 20.2% | 46.9 mi | 58 |
| St. Paul | 15.1% | 91.8 mi | 136 |
| Bloomington | 20.9% | 46.3 mi | 73 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Mendota Heights'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.