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Battle Park
Park
54 acres3 mi of trail
Battle Park LoopBattle Park Loop - EasyBattle Park Loop - Intermediate Lines
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Rocky Mount
Rocky Mount, NC parks, trails & bike paths
About 5.3% of Rocky Mount is conserved land, roughly 1,522 acres. There are about 22 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Battle Park (3 mi) and Rocky Mount Sports Complex (2.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Rocky Mount, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Rocky Mount outdoors
Conserved land
5.3%
1,522 of 28,957 acres
Trails
22 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 7 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
20
28 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
10.1 mi
0.6 mi lanes · 7.3 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
Rocky Mount Sports Complex
Park
127 acres2.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Stith-Talbert Park
Park
34 acres0.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Sunset Park
Park
33 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 20 parks & preserves
- Campus Common1 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Jack Laughery Park1 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Martin Luther King Jr. Park28 ac
- South Rocky Mount Community Center and Park27 ac · Directions
- Hornbeam Park12 ac · Directions
- Southside Park11 ac
- Eastern Avenue Park11 ac · Directions
- Meadowbrook Park10 ac · Directions
- Branch Street Park7 ac
- Holly Street Park5 ac · Directions
- Marigold Park4 ac
- Buck Leonard Park4 ac · Directions
- Denton Street Pool3 ac
- Braswell Park3 ac · Directions
- Happy Hill Park2 ac
- Kite Street Park1 ac
Who protects the land
1,522 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 35 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 18 of 59 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.6 mi
- Off-road bike paths7.3 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes2.2 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis64
- Baseball48
- Soccer16
- Basketball10
- Pickleball10
- Football8
- Beach volleyball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Rocky Mount'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 35.8-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.