Outdoors · Searchlight

Searchlight, NV parks, trails & bike paths

About 46% of Searchlight is conserved land, roughly 1,130 acres. There are about 18 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Searchlight outdoors

Conserved land
46%
1,130 of 2,469 acres
Trails
18 mi
4.6 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
named on the map
Bike routes
0.4 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.4 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

12
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

Avi Kwa Ame National Monument

Managed by Bureau of Land Management
168 acres0.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
2

Searchlight Town Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Peaks in Searchlight
Doherty Mountain3,881 ft elevation
Directions
Duplex Hill3,727 ft elevation
Directions
Trails

Named trails

Open to bikes 0.9 miHorses 0.9 miUnpaved 13.2 mi
  • Old Joshua Tree Highway0.1 mi
Who protects the land

1,130 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Bureau of Land Management
1,123 ac
County
7 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 4 parcels. 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 paths0.4 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Basketball2
  • Skate park1
  • Baseball1

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

Public lands

The biggest protected places in Searchlight

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
National Public Lands 1,123 acLocal Recreation Area 5 acLocal Park 1 acLocal Other or Unknown 1 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Las Vegas Field OfficeNational Public LandsBureau of Land Management1,123Open
Searchlight Community CenterLocal Recreation AreaCounty5Open
Searchlight Town ParkLocal ParkCounty1Open
Searchlight Youth/teen CenterLocal Other or UnknownCounty1Access unknown
History

Historic places to visit

152159 United States Navy P3A Orion MemorialPlaque
George Frederick Colton and the Duplex MineMemorial
Searchlight CemeteryCemetery
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Searchlight'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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