Outdoors · Lancaster

Lancaster, TX parks, trails & bike paths

About 4.9% of Lancaster is conserved land, roughly 1,041 acres. There are about 7.7 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Lancaster outdoors

Conserved land
4.9%
1,041 of 21,118 acres
Trails
7.7 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 6 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
7
26 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
3.9 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 3.9 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

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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

Lancaster City Park

Park
24 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Cedardale Park

Park
12 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Spies Roberts Park

Park
12 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Rocky Crest Park

Park
3 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 7 parks & preserves
  • Kids Square Park3 ac
  • Stanford Park1 ac
  • Verona Park1 ac
Who protects the land

1,041 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city
1,213 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
623 ac
Not recorded
257 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 19 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 paths3.9 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis18
  • Baseball11
  • Basketball3
  • Multi-sport3
  • Football2

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

Next door

Lancaster and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Lancaster4.9%7.7 mi7
Wilmer2.8%1.5 mi2
Dallas8.2%241.9 mi276
Hutchins0.4%0.0 mi2
DeSoto3.6%7.2 mi5
Red Oak0.3%0.7 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Lancaster'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 23.4-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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