1
Poe Corn Park
Park
22 acres0.5 mi of trail
Poe Corn walkpath
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Roswell
Roswell, NM parks, trails & bike paths
About 2% of Roswell is conserved land, roughly 384 acres. There are about 28 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Poe Corn Park (0.5 mi) and Melendez Park (0.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Roswell, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Roswell outdoors
Conserved land
2%
384 of 18,978 acres
Trails
28 mi
0.9 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
30
8 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
11.0 mi
4.4 mi lanes · 6.6 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
Melendez Park
Park
10 acres0.5 mi of trail
Melendez Park WalkwayMelendez Park walkpath
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Noon Optimist Park
Park
29 acres0.3 mi of trail
Noon Optimist walkpath
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
University Park
Park
7 acres0.3 mi of trail
Walkway
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Stiles Park
Park
6 acres0.3 mi of trail
Stiles' Park Walkpath
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
6
Alice Reischman Smith Park
Park
4 acres0.3 mi of trail
Alice Reischmann Smith Park walkpath
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 30 parks & preserves
- Martin Luther King Park6 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Air Center Park4 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- JC Park4 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Altursa Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Carpenter Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Cielo Grande Park190 ac · Directions
- Cahoon Park33 ac · Directions
- Spring River Park24 ac · Directions
- DeKay Park16 ac · Directions
- Enchanted Lands Park15 ac · Directions
- Berrendo Park12 ac
- Stapp Parade Field11 ac · Directions
- Delta West Park10 ac · Directions
- Loveless Park9 ac · Directions
- Linda Vista Park5 ac
- Cielo Grande Second Park Area5 ac · Directions
- Del Norte Park5 ac · Directions
- Missouri Avenue Park4 ac · Directions
- Sertoma Neighborhood Park3 ac · Directions
- Margot M. Purdy Park2 ac · Directions
- Asa Guffey Park2 ac
- POW/MIA Park2 ac · Directions
- Fifth Street Park1 ac
- Memorial Park1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
384 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes4.4 mi
- Off-road bike paths6.6 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
- Hondo River Recreation Trail (bike route)0.3 mi
Courts & fields
- Golf78
- Tennis37
- Baseball35
- Soccer26
- Basketball17
- Volleyball3
- Football3
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Roswell'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 28.3-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.