Outdoors · Sparta

Sparta, MN parks, trails & bike paths

About 8% of Sparta is conserved land, roughly 1,997 acres. Sparta has 2 named parks and preserves on the map.

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

At a glance

Sparta outdoors

Conserved land
8%
1,997 of 24,965 acres
Trails
0.7 mi
0 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
named on the map
Bike routes
4.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 4.0 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

12
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

Spartan Wildlife Management Area

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

Wegdahl County Park

Park
4 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

1,997 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other state land
1,507 ac
State fish & wildlife
285 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
262 ac
Town or city
5 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,707 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 paths4.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Nearby

Sparta and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Sparta8%0.7 mi2
Stony Run5.4%0.4 mi1
Montevideo7.3%0.6 mi4
Tunsberg4.4%1.1 mi4
Granite Falls11.7%0.7 mi2
Rosewood2.1%0.0 mi3
Leenthrop0.9%0.0 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Sparta'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 31.5-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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