Outdoors · St. Lawrence

St. Lawrence, MN parks, trails & bike paths

About 3% of St. Lawrence is conserved land, roughly 265 acres. There are about 15 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area - Lawrence Unit (9.4 mi).

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

At a glance

St. Lawrence outdoors

Conserved land
3%
265 of 8,961 acres
Trails
15 mi
1 mi per sq mi
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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area - Lawrence Unit

Managed by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
1,602 acres9.4 mi of trail
Minnesota Valley State Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Scott County Fairgrounds

Managed by Scott County Agricultural Society
74 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

TCRC Model Air Park

Park
32 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area - Thompson Ferry Unit

Managed by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Campgrounds in St. Lawrence
Minnesota Valley State Park -Horse CampIn Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area - Lawrence Unit
Directions
Minnesota Valley State Park -QuarryFee · In Minnesota Valley State Recreation Area - Lawrence Unit
Directions
Trails

Named trails

Open to bikes 8.5 miHorses 8.5 miUnpaved 11.2 mi
  • Minnesota Valley State Trail8.1 mi
Water

Lakes & rivers

Tap a name for directions.

Who protects the land

265 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
392 ac
Other state land
68 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 68 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
Public lands

The biggest protected places in St. Lawrence

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
National Wildlife Refuge 392 acConservation Easement 68 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife RefugeNational Wildlife RefugeU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service392Restricted
Nearby

St. Lawrence and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
St. Lawrence3%14.5 mi4
San Francisco8.7%2.6 mi5
Jordan3%1.3 mi7
Belle Plaine3.3%0.8 mi7
Sand Creek6.3%10.7 mi2
Belle Plaine1.1%3.2 mi13
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about St. Lawrence'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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