Idol Park
Park
13 acres0.3 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors in Madison
Parks, trails & the outdoors in Madison
About 5.3% of Madison is conserved land, roughly 120 acres. There are about 1.7 miles of mapped trails.
Conserved land
5.3%
120 of 2,267 acres
Trails
1.7 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
4
54 conserved acres per 1,000 people
Bike routes
0.0 mi
The map
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk
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The longest trail network is Idol Park, with 0.3 miles. Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.
Mayodan Tennis Park
Park
16 acres0.2 mi of trail
School Loop Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot
Highway 704 River Access
Managed by Madison-Mayodan Recreation Department
15 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot
Goodwill First Baptist Community Park
Park
3 acres0.2 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
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Trails & water
1 named trail
Named trails
School Loop Trail0.2 mi
Who protects it
120 conserved acres
Who manages Madison’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city21 ac
Not recorded98 ac
State Park · 98 acLocal Park · 21 ac
The biggest protected places
| Place | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mayo River State Park State Park | Not recorded | 98 | Open |
| Idol Park Local Park | Town or city | 19 | Open |
| Mayodan Tennis Court Local Park | Town or city | 3 | Open |
Biking & sports
0.0 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
0.0 mi
painted or protected bike lanes
0.0 mi
off-road bike paths
0.0 mi
shoulders & shared lanes
Courts & fields
12Tennis
2Baseball
1Football
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
History along the way
History →3 old cemeteries
Next door
Madison and its neighbors
Madison has the second most mapped trails of the 2 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.
| Town | Conserved | Parks |
|---|---|---|
| Madison | 5.3% | 4 |
| Mayodan | 32.4% | 3 |
Trail talk
Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Madison neighbors.
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Trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, 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.