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Wake Forest Reservoir Park
Park
201 acres8.2 mi of trail
WFR TrailsWake Forest Reservoir Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead
Outdoors · Wake Forest
Wake Forest, NC parks, trails & bike paths
About 11% of Wake Forest is conserved land, roughly 1,426 acres. There are about 23 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Wake Forest Reservoir Park (8.2 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Wake Forest, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Wake Forest outdoors
Conserved land
11%
1,426 of 12,815 acres
Trails
23 mi
1.2 mi per sq mi · 16 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
15
27 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
32.5 mi
1.6 mi lanes · 30.8 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
Neuse River Greenway
Park
150 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
J.B. Flaherty Park
Park
42 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
E. Carroll Joyner Park
Park
121 acres0.1 mi of trail
Cougar Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 15 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 15 parks & preserves
Wake Forest Reservoir Park201 acres · 8.2 mi of trail
Neuse River Greenway150 acres · 0.4 mi of trail
J.B. Flaherty Park42 acres · 0.3 mi of trail
N Taylor Street Park Rehabilitation1 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
E. Carroll Joyner Park121 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Smith Creek Greenway57 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Sanford Creek Greenway71 acres
Dunn Creek Greenway25 acres
Ailey Young Park15 acres
Tyler Run Park11 acres
Who protects the land
1,426 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 150 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 17 of 57 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes1.6 mi
- Off-road bike paths30.8 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis26
- Baseball20
- Soccer15
- Basketball8
- Pickleball8
- Football2
- Skate park1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Wake Forest and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wake Forest | 11.1% | 23.1 mi | 15 |
| Rolesville | 2.1% | 4.1 mi | 4 |
| Raleigh | 16.1% | 106.4 mi | 172 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Wake Forest'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 23.1-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.