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Ildewild Road Park
Managed by Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation
128 acres1.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Matthews
Matthews, NC parks, trails & bike paths
About 6.1% of Matthews is conserved land, roughly 670 acres. There are about 4.1 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Ildewild Road Park (1.9 mi) and Arthur Goodman Memorial Park (0.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Matthews, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Matthews outdoors
Conserved land
6.1%
670 of 10,955 acres
Trails
4.1 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
15
22 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
14.9 mi
1.7 mi lanes · 12.9 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
Arthur Goodman Memorial Park
Park
28 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
Purser-Hulsey Park
Park
95 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
4
Squirrel Lake Park
Park
34 acres
Dog rules not recorded
All 15 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 15 parks & preserves
Ildewild Road Park128 acres · 1.9 mi of trail · Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation
Arthur Goodman Memorial Park28 acres · 0.7 mi of trail
Rice Park10 acres · 0.2 mi of trail · Matthews Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resource
Stumptown Park1 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Purser-Hulsey Park95 acres
Squirrel Lake Park34 acres
Warner Park26 acres
Independence Pointe Park11 acres
Sardis Road Park7 acres
Windsor Park5 acres
Who protects the land
670 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 5 of 28 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes1.7 mi
- Off-road bike paths12.9 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.4 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis24
- Baseball22
- Soccer14
- Beach volleyball2
- Field hockey2
- Softball2
- Multi-sport2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Matthews and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Matthews'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 20.2-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.