Towers Park
Managed by Fairfax County Park Authority
16 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot
Outdoors in Merrifield
Parks, trails & the outdoors in Merrifield
About 2.5% of Merrifield is conserved land, roughly 43 acres. Merrifield has 7 named parks and preserves on the map.
Conserved land
2.5%
43 of 1,724 acres
Trails
0.6 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
7
2 conserved acres per 1,000 people
Bike routes
6.3 mi
2.3 mi lanes · 3.7 mi paths
What kind of outdoors town is Merrifield?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
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 · Places to walk
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Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.
Armistead Park
Managed by Fairfax County Park Authority
10 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot
Hideaway Park
Managed by Fairfax County Park Authority
6 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Villa Lee Park
Managed by Fairfax County Park Authority
5 acres0.2 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 7 parks & preserves
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Villa Lee Park5 acres · 0.2 mi of trail · Fairfax County Park Authority
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Hideaway Park6 acres · Fairfax County Park Authority
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Merrilee Park1 acres · Fairfax County Park Authority
Things to do
21 places to go in Merrifield
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Playgrounds in Merrifield
11 more playgrounds
Dog parks in Merrifield
Picnic areas in Merrifield
Who protects it
43 conserved acres
Who manages Merrifield’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
County42 ac
Not recorded30 ac
Local Park · 72 ac
The biggest protected places
| Place | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Towers City Park Local Park | Not recorded | 33 | Open |
| Armistead Park Local Park | County | 21 | Open |
| Hideaway Park Local Park | County | 6 | Open |
| Villa Lee Park Local Park | County | 5 | Open |
| Briarwood Local Park | County | 4 | Open |
| Merrilee Local Park | County | 1 | Open |
| Hartland Green Park Local Park | County | 1 | Open |
Biking & sports
6.3 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
2.3 mi
painted or protected bike lanes
3.7 mi
off-road bike paths
0.3 mi
shoulders & shared lanes
Courts & fields
7Tennis
7Basketball
1Baseball
1Soccer
1Beach volleyball
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
History along the way
History →1 old cemetery
Next door
Merrifield and its neighbors
Tap a town to see its outdoors.
Oakton18 miFairfax8.5 miWest Falls Church7.7 miIdylwood3.2 miWoodburn2.5 miMantua2.2 miMerrifield0.6 miDunn Loring0.5 mi
| Town | Conserved | Parks |
|---|---|---|
| Merrifield | 2.5% | 7 |
| Oakton | 9.7% | 17 |
| Dunn Loring | 3.6% | 6 |
| Idylwood | 6.2% | 6 |
| Woodburn | 16% | 4 |
| Mantua | 11.9% | 3 |
| West Falls Church | 6.4% | 16 |
| Fairfax | 5.5% | 18 |
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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.