Outdoors · Clearwater

Clearwater, ND parks, trails & bike paths

About 50% of Clearwater is conserved land, roughly 11,564 acres. There are about 7.7 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Clearwater outdoors

Conserved land
50%
11,564 of 22,928 acres
Trails
7.7 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
1
named on the map
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 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

Ball WPA

Managed by United States Fish and Wildlife Service
228 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Boat launches in Clearwater
Unnamed boat launch
Directions
Trails

Named trails

Unpaved 6.3 mi
  • 69th Street Northwest0.8 mi
  • 72nd Avenue Northwest0.3 mi
Who protects the land

11,564 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
14,536 ac
State land board
1,119 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 9,859 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Public lands

The biggest protected places in Clearwater

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
Conservation Easement 13,367 acResource Management Area 1,169 acState Resource Management Area 1,119 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Mountrail County Waterfowl Production AreaResource Management AreaU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service1,169Restricted
Nd State Lands - Surface OwnershipState Resource Management AreaState land board1,119Open
Nearby

Clearwater and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Clearwater50.4%7.7 mi1
James Hill16.4%13.2 mi1
Redmond56.7%20.4 mi0
Sidonia62%7.0 mi1
Palermo47.3%18.0 mi1
Lostwood58.3%22.8 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Clearwater'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-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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