1
Quarry Park and Nature Reserve
Managed by Stearns County
708 acres6.6 mi of trail
Winter TrailFloating bridge
Dogs on leashMapped in OpenStreetMap
Outdoors · Waite Park
Waite Park, MN parks, trails & bike paths
About 4.8% of Waite Park is conserved land, roughly 385 acres. There are about 14 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Quarry Park and Nature Reserve (6.6 mi), Quarry Park Scientific and Natural Area (4.7 mi), and Rivers Edge Park (1.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Waite Park, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Waite Park outdoors
Conserved land
4.8%
385 of 8,081 acres
Trails
14 mi
1.1 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
46 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
6.4 mi
0.7 mi lanes · 5.1 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
Quarry Park Scientific and Natural Area
Managed by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
481 acres4.7 mi of trail
Winter Trail
No dogsMapped in OpenStreetMap
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Rivers Edge Park
Park
45 acres1.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Lions Park
Managed by City of Rockville
5 acres0.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land
385 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.7 mi
- Off-road bike paths5.1 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.5 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball13
- Pickleball6
- Tennis1
- Basketball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Waite Park and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waite Park | 4.8% | 14.0 mi | 5 |
| St. Cloud | 5.2% | 16.4 mi | 47 |
| St. Joseph | 1.7% | 13.0 mi | 1 |
| St. Joseph | 0.8% | 6.1 mi | 4 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Waite Park'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.