Outdoors · Waterloo

Waterloo, OH parks, trails & bike paths

About 26% of Waterloo is conserved land, roughly 6,335 acres. There are about 15 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Waterloo State WMA (6.1 mi).

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

At a glance

Waterloo outdoors

Conserved land
26%
6,335 of 24,142 acres
Trails
15 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 15 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
4,108 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 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

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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

Waterloo State Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
2,654 acres6.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Poston Plant Lands

Managed by Ohio Department of Natural Resources
304 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Woodcock Nature Preserve

Managed by Woodcock Nature Preserve non-profit corporation
2 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

6,335 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
6,204 ac
Private owners
106 ac
County
25 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
2 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. 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 paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
  • Moonville Rail Trail (bike route)1.9 mi

Courts & fields

  • Basketball1

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

Nearby

Waterloo and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Waterloo26.2%15.4 mi3
Athens6.9%20.1 mi24
York41.5%13.1 mi7
Knox21.4%21.4 mi0
Brown70.4%56.1 mi2
Lee0.6%5.1 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Waterloo'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 21.1-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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