Outdoors · Buckhall

Buckhall, VA parks, trails & bike paths

About 3.7% of Buckhall is conserved land, roughly 480 acres. There are about 9.8 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Doves Landing Park (5.2 mi).

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

At a glance

Buckhall outdoors

Conserved land
3.7%
480 of 12,933 acres
Trails
9.8 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
22 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
12.5 mi
0.5 mi lanes · 11.5 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

Doves Landing Park

Managed by Prince William County
294 acres5.2 mi of trail
Orange TrailGray TrailWhite TrailPink TrailBlue Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Doves Landing Parking Lot
2

Signal Hill Park

Park
16 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Hemlock Overlook Regional Park

Managed by NOVA Parks
3 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
4

The Elms at Signal Hill Station

Park
3 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Public pools in Buckhall
Community Pool
Directions
Trails

Named trails

Open to bikes 2.6 miHorses 2.6 miUnpaved 7.0 mi
  • Orange Trail2.8 mi
  • Gray Trail1.0 mi
  • White Trail0.4 mi
  • Pink Trail0.3 mi
  • Blue Trail0.3 mi
  • Yellow Trail0.2 mi
Water

Lakes & rivers

Tap a name for directions.

Who protects the land

480 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
County
309 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
151 ac
Other state land
87 ac
Town or city
6 ac
Not recorded
396 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 76 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 lanes0.5 mi
  • Off-road bike paths11.5 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.4 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis17
  • Basketball8
  • Baseball8
  • Soccer3

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

Public lands

The biggest protected places in Buckhall

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
Local Park 624 acState Other or Unknown 87 acMitigation Land or Bank 87 acOther Easement 76 acConservation Easement 75 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Doves LandingLocal ParkCounty439Open
VDOT Wetlands BankState Other or UnknownNot recorded175Closed
Hemlock Overlook Regional ParkLocal ParkNot recorded93Open
Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority ParcelLocal ParkCounty81Open
Signal Hill ParkLocal ParkTown or city6Open
Occoquan River Access - Lake JacksonLocal ParkNot recorded3Open
Bull Run Regional ParkLocal ParkCounty3Open
History

Historic places to visit

Lucasville SchoolBuilding
Bradley Community CemeteryCemetery
Buckhall Community CemeteryCemetery
Hixson CemeteryCemetery
Machpelah CemeteryCemetery
Nearby

Buckhall and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Buckhall3.7%9.8 mi5
Manassas3.6%2.5 mi15
Manassas Park17.4%3.8 mi5
Yorkshire2.5%0.9 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Buckhall'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-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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