Outdoors · North Star

North Star, MN parks, trails & bike paths

About 2.4% of North Star is conserved land, roughly 538 acres. There are about 4.6 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

North Star outdoors

Conserved land
2.4%
538 of 22,506 acres
Trails
4.6 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
0
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

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.
Who protects the land

538 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
337 ac
Other state land
201 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 201 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 lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Nearby

North Star and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
North Star2.4%4.6 mi0
Springfield0.4%3.4 mi3
Stately4.9%0.7 mi2
Sundown0.3%2.3 mi0
Burnstown1.4%2.2 mi1
Charlestown9.5%4.1 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about North Star'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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