Outdoors · Spring Lake

Spring Lake, ND parks, trails & bike paths

About 42% of Spring Lake is conserved land, roughly 9,564 acres. There are about 30 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Spring Lake outdoors

Conserved land
42%
9,564 of 22,814 acres
Trails
30 mi
0.8 mi per sq mi · 11 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.
Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Campgrounds in Spring Lake
Nelson Carlson Lake CampgroundWard County Parks
Directions
Trails

Named trails

Unpaved 30.2 mi
  • 114th Street Southwest3.9 mi
  • 100th Street Southwest3.8 mi
  • 317th Avenue Southwest3.0 mi
  • 72nd Street Southwest2.9 mi
  • 128th Street Southwest1.9 mi
  • 289th Avenue Southwest1.3 mi
  • 345th Avenue Southwest1.0 mi
  • 46th Street Southwest0.7 mi
Water

Lakes & rivers

Tap a name for directions.

Who protects the land

9,564 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
10,369 ac
State land board
636 ac
Bureau of Land Management
40 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 8,148 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

Courts & fields

  • Beach volleyball1

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Public lands

The biggest protected places in Spring Lake

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
Conservation Easement 8,890 acResource Management Area 1,479 acState Resource Management Area 636 acNational Public Lands 40 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Ward County Waterfowl Production AreaResource Management AreaU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service1,479Restricted
Nd State Lands - Surface OwnershipState Resource Management AreaState land board636Open
North Dakota Field OfficeNational Public LandsBureau of Land Management40Open
Nearby

Spring Lake and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Spring Lake41.9%30.2 mi0
Cameron52.3%25.8 mi0
Hilton61.2%33.4 mi0
Rosemont42.5%29.9 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Spring Lake'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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