Outdoors · Colstrip

Colstrip, MT parks, trails & bike paths

About 7.2% of Colstrip is conserved land, roughly 185 acres. There are about 9.8 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Prospector Park (0.7 mi) and Stillwater Park (0.5 mi).

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

At a glance

Colstrip outdoors

Conserved land

7.2%

185 of 2,577 acres

Trails

9.8 mi

2.5 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land

Parks & preserves

88 conserved acres per 1,000 residents

Bike routes

5.0 mi

0.0 mi lanes · 5.0 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.

DirectionsTo the parking lot

All 14 parks & preserves

Stillwater Ballfield Complex14 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
Piedmont Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail
Laramie Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail
Hollister Park1 ac · 0.1 mi trail
Obert Rye Park5 ac · Directions
Cottonwood Park3 ac · Directions
Antelope Park2 ac
North Park1 ac
Firemans Park1 ac · Directions
Cherry Street Plaza1 ac · Directions

Who protects the land

185 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Other or Unknown Local Government

185 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 1 parcels. 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 paths5.0 mi
Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

Basketball5
Baseball5
Multi-sport4
Tennis2

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Colstrip'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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