Outdoors · McLean
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About 15% of McLean is conserved land, roughly 2,351 acres. There are about 43 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Scott's Run Nature Preserve (7.1 mi), Turkey Run Park (3.1 mi), and Difficult Run Stream Valley Park (2.1 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in McLean, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
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Conserved land
15%
2,351 of 15,845 acres
Trails
43 mi
1.7 mi per sq mi · 35 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
42
47 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
14.1 mi
4.2 mi lanes · 7.9 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.
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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 Scott's Run Nature Preserve Managed by Fairfax County Park Authority
374 acres7.1 mi of trail
Potomac Heritage Trail Oak Trail Stubblefield Falls Overlook Trail Trillium Hollow Trail Laurel Ridge Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
2 Turkey Run Park Nature preserve
269 acres3.1 mi of trail
Potomac Heritage Trail Turkey Run Loop Dead Run Trail Turkey Run Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
3 Difficult Run Stream Valley Park Managed by Fairfax County Park Authority
99 acres2.1 mi of trail
Cross County Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
Directions To Difficult Run Parking Lot
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4 Timberly Park Managed by Fairfax County Park Authority
29 acres1.6 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Show on map
5 Langley Oaks Park Managed by Fairfax County Park Authority
104 acres1.3 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Show on map
6 Haycock-Longfellow Park Managed by Fairfax County Park Authority
29 acres1.2 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
7 Kent Gardens Park Managed by Fairfax County Park Authority
27 acres1 mi of trail
Pimmit Run Trail (Upstream) Kent Gardens
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
37 acres0.9 mi of trail
Pimmit Run Trail (Upstream)
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
All 42 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 42 parks & preserves
🌲 Scott's Run Nature Preserve 374 acres · 7.1 mi of trail · Fairfax County Park Authority
🌲 Turkey Run Park 269 acres · 3.1 mi of trail
🌲 Difficult Run Stream Valley Park 99 acres · 2.1 mi of trail · Fairfax County Park Authority
🌲 Timberly Park 29 acres · 1.6 mi of trail · Fairfax County Park Authority
🌲 Langley Oaks Park 104 acres · 1.3 mi of trail · Fairfax County Park Authority
🌳 Haycock-Longfellow Park 29 acres · 1.2 mi of trail · Fairfax County Park Authority
🌳 Kent Gardens Park 27 acres · 1 mi of trail · Fairfax County Park Authority
🌳 Pimmit Bend Park 37 acres · 0.9 mi of trail
🌲 Marie Butler Leven Preserve 19 acres · 0.9 mi of trail
🌳 Pimmit Run Stream Valley Park 63 acres · 0.8 mi of trail · Fairfax County Park Authority
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 McLean Show all on map
🏊 Kent Gardens Recreation Club
Trails
Named trails
Open to bikes 15.2 mi Unpaved 33.4 mi
Showing 1–10 of 25 trails
Potomac Heritage Trail 7.7 mi Pimmit Run Trail (Upstream) 3.1 mi Cross County Trail 2.1 mi Pimmit Run Trail 2.0 mi Langley Fork Trail 1.0 mi Oak Trail 0.9 mi Stubblefield Falls Overlook Trail 0.8 mi Trillium Hollow Trail 0.7 mi Spring Hill & McLean Hunt Park Trail 0.5 mi Laurel Ridge Trail 0.5 mi Water
Lakes & rivers
Tap a name for directions.
Who protects the land
2,351 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
National Park Service
1,987 ac Land trusts & nonprofits
283 ac Other or Unknown Federal Land
56 ac Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 98 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 lanes 4.2 mi Off-road bike paths 7.9 mi Shoulders & shared lanes 2.0 mi Pimmit Run Trail (bike route) 5.4 mi Fairfax Cross County Trail (bike route) 2.1 mi
Courts & fields Tennis 104 Soccer 26 Baseball 26 Basketball 25 Pickleball 8 Football 2 Field hockey 1 Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Public lands
The biggest protected places in McLean
From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
Local Park 2,656 ac National Park 999 ac Special Designation Area 897 ac Other Easement 163 ac Recreation or Education Easement 148 ac
Showing 1–10 of 15 places
Place Managed by Acres Public access
George Washington Memorial Parkway Special Designation Area National Park Service 1,895 Restricted Scotts Run Nature Preserve Local Park Not recorded 1,086 Open Langley Oaks City Park Local Park County 202 Open Difficult Run Stream Valley Park Local Park Not recorded 199 Open Pimmit Run Stream Valley Park Local Park Not recorded 171 Open Greenway Heights City Park Local Park County 106 Open Spring Hill City Park Local Park Not recorded 93 Open Salona Park Local Park Not recorded 82 Open Lewinsville City Park Local Park Not recorded 74 Open Kent Gardens City Park Local Park County 55 Open
History
Historic places to visit
Showing 1–10 of 12 places
🏛️ Brick from Auschwitz: Commemorative Memorial In Joel Jacknow Memorial Meditation Garden · Memorial
🏛️ Burling Defenders In Scott's Run Nature Preserve · Memorial
🏛️ Fort Marcy Archaeological site
🏛️ Memorial Garden Memorial
🏛️ Nathan Hale Statue Monument
🪦 First Baptist Church Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 Lewinsville Presbyterian Church Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 Old Bethel Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 Pleasant Grove Cemetery Cemetery
Nearby
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Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about McLean'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 23.6-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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