Cardinal Park
Park
6 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors in Columbus
Parks, trails & the outdoors in Columbus
About 4.4% of Columbus is conserved land, roughly 85 acres. There are about 1.4 miles of mapped trails.
Conserved land
4.4%
85 of 1,924 acres
Trails
1.4 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
22 conserved acres per 1,000 people
Bike routes
0.0 mi
What kind of outdoors town is Columbus?
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The map
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
★ What stands out · History along the way
History →72 historic sites to visit
Plus 4 cemeteries, often the oldest places in town.
60 more on the map.
Places to walk
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Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.
Midtown Park
Park
5 acres0.1 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects it
85 conserved acres
Who manages Columbus’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city170 ac
Local Park · 85 acRecreation or Education Easement · 56 acConservation Easement · 29 ac
The biggest protected places
| Place | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Columbus Golf Course Local Park | Town or city | 56 | Open |
| Community Park Local Park | Town or city | 17 | Open |
| Cardinal Park Local Park | Town or city | 6 | Open |
| MidTown Park Local Park | Town or city | 5 | Open |
| Memorial Park Local Park | Town or city | 1 | Open |
Biking & sports
0.0 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
0.0 mi
painted or protected bike lanes
0.0 mi
off-road bike paths
0.0 mi
shoulders & shared lanes
Courts & fields
7Baseball
5Soccer
4Tennis
2Volleyball
1Softball
1Football
1Skate park
1Pickleball
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
Trail talk
Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Columbus neighbors.
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Trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, 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.