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Forward, ND parks, trails & bike paths

About 13% of Forward is conserved land, roughly 3,038 acres. There are about 29 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Forward outdoors

Conserved land
13%
3,038 of 22,895 acres
Trails
29 mi
0.8 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Tree Belt Wildlife Management Area

Managed by North Dakota Game and Fish Department
127 acres0.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Lonetree Wildlife Management Area

Managed by North Dakota Game and Fish Department
72 acres0.2 mi of trail
North Country Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Forward Wildlife Management Area

Managed by North Dakota Game and Fish Department
27 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Egg Lake Wildlife Management Area

Managed by North Dakota Game and Fish Department
10 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

3,038 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
2,641 ac
State land board
322 ac
State fish & wildlife
231 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2,400 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
Nearby

Forward and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Forward13.3%29.2 mi4
Western19.1%21.7 mi2
Harvey0%1.0 mi2
Manfred2.5%20.5 mi2
Wells10.1%9.5 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Forward'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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