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Al Lease Park
Park
63 acres1.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Kent
Kent, OH parks, trails & bike paths
About 7.2% of Kent is conserved land, roughly 437 acres. There are about 9.2 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Al Lease Park (1.5 mi), Forest Lake Wildlife Preserve (0.9 mi), and Kame-Esker Bog Park (0.8 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Kent, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Kent outdoors
Conserved land
7.2%
437 of 6,081 acres
Trails
9.2 mi
1 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
25
16 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
13.3 mi
7.0 mi lanes · 5.5 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
Forest Lake Wildlife Preserve
Nature preserve
45 acres0.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Kame-Esker Bog Park
Managed by Portage Park District
56 acres0.8 mi of trail
Glacial TrailSpicebush Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trail sign
4
Jessie Smith Wildlife Preserve
Nature preserve
16 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Tom S Cooperrider-Kent Bog State Nature Preserve
Nature preserve
28 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dr. Gordon F. Vars Memorial Boardwalk
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 25 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 25 parks & preserves
Al Lease Park63 acres · 1.5 mi of trail
Forest Lake Wildlife Preserve45 acres · 0.9 mi of trail
Kame-Esker Bog Park56 acres · 0.8 mi of trail · Portage Park District
Jessie Smith Wildlife Preserve16 acres · 0.7 mi of trail
Tom S Cooperrider-Kent Bog State Nature Preserve28 acres · 0.5 mi of trail
Fred Fuller Park50 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Plum Creek Park17 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Allerton Sport and Adventure Complex8 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Kent State Commons6 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
John Brown Tannery Park2 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Who protects the land
437 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes7.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths5.5 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.8 mi
Courts & fields
- Basketball24
- Soccer23
- Baseball13
- Tennis9
- Football9
- Beach volleyball8
- Volleyball6
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Kent and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Kent'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.