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Walnut Woods Metro Park
Nature preserve
971 acres5.9 mi of trail
Kestrel TrailPin Oak TrailSweetgum Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Madison
Madison, OH parks, trails & bike paths
About 9% of Madison is conserved land, roughly 2,290 acres. There are about 19 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Walnut Woods Metro Park (5.9 mi), Pickerington Ponds Metro Park (1 mi), and McGill Park (0.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Madison, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Madison outdoors
Conserved land
9%
2,290 of 25,490 acres
Trails
19 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 9 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
23
87 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
25.8 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 23.9 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
Pickerington Ponds Metro Park
Nature preserve
502 acres1 mi of trail
Killdeer TrailYellowlegs Trail
No dogsMapped in OpenStreetMap
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
McGill Park
Park
63 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Green Pointe Business Park
Park
12 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
5
Blacklick Park
Park
76 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 23 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 23 parks & preserves
Walnut Woods Metro Park971 acres · 5.9 mi of trail
Pickerington Ponds Metro Park502 acres · 1 mi of trail
McGill Park63 acres · 0.5 mi of trail
Green Pointe Business Park12 acres · 0.5 mi of trail
Blacklick Park76 acres · 0.3 mi of trail
Three Creeks Metro Park34 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Madison Mills Park14 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Cruiser Park55 acres · City of Groveport
Big Walnut-Edgewater Parkland40 acres · Columbus Recreation and Parks
Refugee Preserve34 acres · Columbus Recreation and Parks
Who protects the land
2,290 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 42 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 paths23.9 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes2.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball42
- Soccer40
- Basketball35
- Tennis15
- Football4
- Skate park1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Madison and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison | 9% | 18.7 mi | 23 |
| Columbus | 8.5% | 141.0 mi | 290 |
| Blacklick Estates | 4.6% | 0.0 mi | 3 |
| Canal Winchester | 9.6% | 4.8 mi | 6 |
| Groveport | 11.4% | 3.0 mi | 9 |
| Obetz | 4.8% | 2.6 mi | 1 |
| Violet | 4% | 11.7 mi | 18 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Madison'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 25.6-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.