Outdoors · Harrisburg

Harrisburg, NC parks, trails & bike paths

About 2% of Harrisburg is conserved land, roughly 163 acres. There are about 7.5 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Harrisburg Municipal Park (1.9 mi) and Pharr Mill Park (1.3 mi).

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

At a glance

Harrisburg outdoors

Conserved land
2%
163 of 8,022 acres
Trails
7.5 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
8 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.2 mi
0.4 mi lanes · 3.2 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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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.
1

Harrisburg Municipal Park

Park
45 acres1.9 mi of trail
Harrisburg Half Mountain Bike Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Pharr Mill Park

Park
35 acres1.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Stallings Road Park

Park
11 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
4

Harris Square Veterans Park

Managed by Town of Harrisburg
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

163 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city
43 ac
Not recorded
120 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 3 of 5 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.4 mi
  • Off-road bike paths3.2 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.6 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis15
  • Baseball12
  • Soccer8
  • Running tracks3
  • Basketball2
  • Football2
  • Multi-sport2

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

Nearby

Harrisburg and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Harrisburg2%7.5 mi4
Concord1.7%31.4 mi15
Charlotte6.7%138.4 mi179
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Harrisburg'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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