Outdoors · Kannapolis

Kannapolis, NC parks, trails & bike paths

About 2% of Kannapolis is conserved land, roughly 453 acres. There are about 4.4 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Veterans Park (1.3 mi).

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

At a glance

Kannapolis outdoors

Conserved land
2%
453 of 22,864 acres
Trails
4.4 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
7
8 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.4 mi
1.5 mi lanes · 2.9 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

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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

Veterans Park

Park
66 acres1.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Walter M. Safrit Park

Park
14 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Bakers Creek Park

Park
29 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Village Park

Park
14 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

453 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
60 ac
State natural resources
41 ac
Town or city
36 ac
Regional Water Districts
26 ac
Not recorded
387 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 29 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 12 of 18 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes1.5 mi
  • Off-road bike paths2.9 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis24
  • Baseball12
  • Basketball9
  • Football3
  • Beach volleyball3
  • Softball3
  • Soccer2

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

Nearby

Kannapolis and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Kannapolis2%4.4 mi7
Concord1.7%31.4 mi15
Landis11.4%2.2 mi3
Davidson6.1%8.6 mi11
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Kannapolis'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 36.2-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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