Outdoors · Franklin

Franklin, ND parks, trails & bike paths

About 8.8% of Franklin is conserved land, roughly 2,012 acres. There are about 18 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Franklin outdoors

Conserved land
8.8%
2,012 of 22,827 acres
Trails
18 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
0
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

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.
Who protects the land

2,012 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1,600 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
660 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,933 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

Franklin and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Franklin8.8%18.1 mi0
Finley10.6%14.6 mi0
Romness1.9%25.6 mi0
Greenview13.1%22.0 mi0
Sharon17.2%13.4 mi0
Finley16.5%1.1 mi0
Sharon19.6%1.1 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Franklin'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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