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Meadowlark North Park
Park
81 acres2.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Kearney
Kearney, NE parks, trails & bike paths
About 3.9% of Kearney is conserved land, roughly 380 acres. There are about 8.2 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Meadowlark North Park (2.8 mi) and Ted Baldwin Park (1.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Kearney, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Kearney outdoors
Conserved land
3.9%
380 of 9,838 acres
Trails
8.2 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
13
11 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
12.3 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 12.3 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.
2
Ted Baldwin Park
Park
32 acres1.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Buffalo County Fairgrounds
Park
59 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
4
Patriot Park
Park
58 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 13 parks & preserves
- Centennial Park13 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Spillway Park1 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- West Lincolnway Park19 ac
- Harmon Park18 ac
- Memorial Diamond Park13 ac
- Fountain Hills Park8 ac
- Dryden Park6 ac
- Collins Park5 ac
- Apollo Park4 ac
Who protects the land
380 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths12.3 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis18
- Baseball15
- Pickleball7
- Soccer5
- Football4
- Basketball3
- Golf1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Kearney'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.