1
Nature Center Park
Park
82 acres2.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Springfield
Springfield, MO parks, trails & bike paths
About 2.3% of Springfield is conserved land, roughly 1,227 acres. There are about 35 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Nature Center Park (2.7 mi), Dickerson Park Zoo (2.3 mi), and Lake Springfield Park (2.2 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Springfield, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Springfield outdoors
Conserved land
2.3%
1,227 of 53,423 acres
Trails
35 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 15 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
52
7 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
103.4 mi
21.6 mi lanes · 25.0 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.
2
Dickerson Park Zoo
Park
63 acres2.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
3
Lake Springfield Park
Park
165 acres2.2 mi of trail
Lake Springfield Park TrailGreater Ozarks Audubon Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Nathanael Greene Park
Park
117 acres1.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Valley Water Mill Park
Park
72 acres1.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Doling Park
Park
42 acres1.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
7
Tom Watkins Park
Park
19 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
8
Fassnight park
Park
31 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 52 parks & preserves
- Jenny Lincoln Park9 ac · 0.6 mi trail · Directions
- Ewing Sports Park30 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Silver Springs Park23 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Sequiota Park11 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Jordan Valley Park6 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Cooper Park57 ac · 0.4 mi trail · Directions
- Pat Jones Park18 ac · 0.4 mi trail
- Living Memorial Park11 ac · 0.4 mi trail · Directions
- Westport Park14 ac · 0.3 mi trail · Directions
- Grant Beach Park14 ac · 0.3 mi trail · Directions
- Zagonyi Park11 ac · 0.3 mi trail · Directions
- Lafayette Park7 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- LA Wise Park7 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Drainage Park5 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Kellogg Greenspace3 ac · 0.3 mi trail · Directions
- Lexington Square Park5 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Rountree Historic Park3 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Ozarks Empire Fairgrounds71 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Phelps Grove Park28 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- George Washington Carver Park23 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Smith Park9 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- The Commons at Jordan Valley3 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Firemens Running Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Lone Pine Park49 ac · Directions
- McDaniel Park39 ac · Directions
- Chesterfield Park & Family Center37 ac · Directions
- Meador Park37 ac · Directions
- Dan Kinney Park17 ac
- Nichols Park15 ac · Directions
- Sanford Park15 ac
- Max and Una Lilly Park14 ac
- Twelve Oaks Park12 ac
- Cooper Family Soccerplex11 ac
- Glenwood Park8 ac · Directions
- Oak Grove Park7 ac
- Eugene Field Park7 ac
- Parkwood Park7 ac
- Champion Park4 ac
- Miles Park4 ac · Directions
- Washington Park4 ac · Directions
- Hawthorn Park3 ac
- Kirkwood Park2 ac
- Ray Kelly Park2 ac
- McGregor School-Park1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
1,227 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes21.6 mi
- Off-road bike paths25.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes56.8 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis117
- Soccer51
- Baseball49
- Basketball39
- Pickleball30
- Multi-sport10
- Football9
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Springfield and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Springfield'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 42.1-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.