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Glenn C. Hilton Memorial Park
Park
70 acres1.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Hickory
Hickory, NC parks, trails & bike paths
About 5.4% of Hickory is conserved land, roughly 1,136 acres. There are about 8.1 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Glenn C. Hilton Memorial Park (1.1 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Hickory, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Hickory outdoors
Conserved land
5.4%
1,136 of 21,232 acres
Trails
8.1 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
16
26 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
8.3 mi
0.4 mi lanes · 7.9 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
Geitner Rotary Park
Park
88 acres0.3 mi of trail
Riverwalk
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Sally Fox Park
Park
4 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Stanford Park
Park
25 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 16 parks & preserves
- Winkler Park6 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Jaycee Park19 ac · Directions
- Neil Clark Jr Recreation Park14 ac · Directions
- Kiwanis City Park11 ac · Directions
- Cliff Teague Park8 ac · Directions
- Civitan Park7 ac · Directions
- Optimist Park7 ac · Directions
- West Hickory Park5 ac · Directions
- Southside Heights Park4 ac · Directions
- Taft Broome Park4 ac · Directions
- McComb Park/Beaver Memorial Garden3 ac · Directions
- Robinson Park2 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
1,136 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 6 of 23 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 paths7.9 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis37
- Baseball23
- Soccer7
- Basketball3
- Multi-sport3
- Pickleball3
- Football2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Hickory and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hickory | 5.4% | 8.1 mi | 16 |
| St. Stephens | 0.1% | 0.0 mi | 1 |
| Long View | 1.4% | 0.4 mi | 1 |
| Conover | 0.6% | 1.8 mi | 7 |
| Newton | 5.4% | 5.6 mi | 8 |
| Granite Falls | 3.4% | 0.2 mi | 2 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Hickory'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 36-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.