Outdoors · Villard

Villard, ND parks, trails & bike paths

About 15% of Villard is conserved land, roughly 3,461 acres. There are about 47 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Heffner Lake WMA (0.5 mi).

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

At a glance

Villard outdoors

Conserved land
15%
3,461 of 22,879 acres
Trails
47 mi
1.3 mi per sq mi · 10 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

Heffner Lake Wildlife Management Area

Managed by North Dakota Game and Fish Department
231 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

3,461 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
2,504 ac
State land board
809 ac
State fish & wildlife
241 ac
Bureau of Land Management
79 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2,170 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

Villard and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Villard15.1%46.6 mi1
Falsen1.9%35.2 mi0
Karlsruhe13.5%29.2 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Villard'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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