Outdoors · Gresham
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About 16% of Gresham is conserved land, roughly 2,384 acres. There are about 19 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Gabbert Butte Natural Area (1 mi), Gresham Butte Natural Area (0.8 mi), and Grant Butte Wetlands (0.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Gresham, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
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Conserved land
16%
2,384 of 15,055 acres
Trails
19 mi
0.8 mi per sq mi · 13 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
47
21 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
83.3 mi
61.0 mi lanes · 17.6 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.
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Conserved land, trails & bike routes
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Places to walk
Parks & preserves with trails
Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1 Gabbert Butte Natural Area Managed by City of Gresham;Metro
204 acres1 mi of trail
Gresham Butte Saddle Trail Butler Buttes Trail Gabbert Loop
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Show on map
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2 Gresham Butte Natural Area Managed by City of Gresham
219 acres0.8 mi of trail
Gresham Butte Saddle Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Show on map
3 Grant Butte Wetlands Managed by Metro
48 acres0.7 mi of trail
🐕 No dogsMapped in OpenStreetMap
4 Gradin Community Sports Park Managed by City of Gresham
33 acres0.6 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
5 Nadaka Nature Park Managed by City of Gresham
11 acres0.6 mi of trail
Nadaka Loop Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
6 Gresham Woods Natural Area Managed by City of Gresham
53 acres0.4 mi of trail
Johnson Creek Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
7 North Gresham Park Managed by City of Gresham
13 acres0.4 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Show on map
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8 Kane Road Park Managed by City of Gresham
10 acres0.4 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Show on map
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All 47 parks & preserves
Showing 11–20 of 47 parks & preserves
🌳 Hall Park 5 acres · 0.3 mi of trail · City of Gresham
🌲 Shane T. Bemis Nature Park 52 acres · 0.2 mi of trail · City of Gresham
🌳 Davis Park 3 acres · 0.2 mi of trail · City of Gresham
🌲 7th Street Natural Area 26 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · City of Gresham
🌳 Main City Park 20 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · City of Gresham
🌳 Rockwood Central Park 10 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · City of Gresham
🌳 Thom Park 5 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · City of Gresham
🌲 Towle Butte 117 acres · Metro
🌲 Sunshine Butte 85 acres · Metro
🌲 West Bliss Butte 72 acres · Metro
Things to do
Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more
Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Peaks in Gresham Show all on map
⛰️ Towle Butte 997 ft elevation
⛰️ Gabbert Butte 991 ft elevation
⛰️ Hogan Butte 922 ft elevation · In Shane T. Bemis Nature Park
⛰️ Walters Hill 858 ft elevation
⛰️ Grant Butte 658 ft elevation
Trails
Named trails
Open to bikes 3.8 mi Unpaved 6.1 mi
Showing 1–10 of 14 trails
Gresham Butte Saddle Trail 1.5 mi Butler Creek Greenway Trail 0.8 mi Kelly Creek Greenway Trail 0.6 mi Gabbert Loop 0.5 mi Butler Buttes Trail 0.4 mi Johnson Creek Trail 0.4 mi Nadaka Loop Trail 0.4 mi The Truck Trail 0.2 mi Gresham-Fairview Trail 0.2 mi Wy'East Way Path Connector 0.1 mi Water
Lakes & rivers
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Who protects the land
2,384 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other or Unknown Local Government
31 ac Land trusts & nonprofits
1 ac Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 4 of 141 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
Painted or protected bike lanes 61.0 mi Off-road bike paths 17.6 mi Shoulders & shared lanes 4.7 mi
Courts & fields Tennis 36 Baseball 30 Tracks 21 Soccer 20 Basketball 17 Pickleball 15 Softball 9 Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Public lands
The biggest protected places in Gresham
From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
Local Other or Unknown 877 ac Local Conservation Area 653 ac Local Recreation Area 528 ac Private Recreation or Education 435 ac Local Park 56 ac
Showing 1–10 of 15 places
Place Managed by Acres Public access
City Greenspace Local Other or Unknown Town or city 712 Open Towle Butte Local Conservation Area Regional agency 158 Open Persimmon Country Club Open Space Private Recreation or Education Private owners 148 Restricted Gresham Golf And Country Club Private Recreation or Education Private owners 106 Restricted Sunshine Butte Natural Area Local Conservation Area Regional agency 84 Open West Bliss Butte Local Conservation Area Regional agency 73 Open Mt Hood Community College Local Other or Unknown Town or city 69 Open Gabbert Hill Local Conservation Area Regional agency 61 Open Grant Butte Reservoir Local Recreation Area Town or city 54 Open Gresham Woods Natural Area Local Conservation Area Town or city 53 Open
History
Historic places to visit
🏛️ Heroes Memorial & Tribute In Main City Park · Memorial
🪦 Escobar Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 Forest Lawn Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 Gresham Pioneer Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 Kwan Yin Temple Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 Saint Joseph Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 White Birch Cemetery Cemetery
Nearby
Share Gresham and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Town Conserved Trails Parks & preserves
Gresham 15.8% 18.6 mi 47 Portland 13.8% 245.6 mi 269 Fairview 16.9% 7.6 mi 12 Troutdale 16.4% 13.0 mi 23
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Gresham'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 21.2-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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