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Jay Cooke State Park
Nature preserve
2,409 acres18.4 mi of trail
Superior Hiking TrailTriangle TrailsOgantz TrailOak TrailWhite Pine Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Thomson
Thomson, MN parks, trails & bike paths
About 9.7% of Thomson is conserved land, roughly 2,480 acres. There are about 19 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Jay Cooke State Park (18.4 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Thomson, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Thomson outdoors
Conserved land
9.7%
2,480 of 25,483 acres
Trails
19 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 18 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
448 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.7 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 4.7 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.
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Riverlands State Forest
Managed by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
537 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Northridge Park
Park
4 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land
2,480 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths4.7 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball6
- Equestrian2
- Football1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Thomson and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomson | 9.7% | 19.2 mi | 3 |
| Twin Lakes | 12.6% | 20.3 mi | 2 |
| Carlton | 12.8% | 2.9 mi | 2 |
| Cloquet | 2.6% | 24.5 mi | 11 |
| Scanlon | 0.8% | 0.5 mi | 3 |
| Midway | 1.3% | 3.2 mi | 0 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Thomson'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 23.1-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.