Outdoors · Kelso

Kelso, WA parks, trails & bike paths

About 7.6% of Kelso is conserved land, roughly 427 acres. There are about 6.2 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Tam O'Shanter Park (0.5 mi).

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

At a glance

Kelso outdoors

Conserved land
7.6%
427 of 5,615 acres
Trails
6.2 mi
0.7 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
34 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
2.9 mi
1.0 mi lanes · 1.8 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

Tam O'Shanter Park

Managed by City of Kelso
42 acres0.5 mi of trail
Coweeman River Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Rotary Park

Park
3 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Manasco Fields

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

Catlin Rotary Spray Park

Park
1 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 5 parks & preserves
  • Scot Hollow Park1 ac
Who protects the land

427 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
County
51 ac
Town or city
46 ac
State natural resources
40 ac
Not recorded
327 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 2 of 9 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes1.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths1.8 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Soccer8
  • Baseball8
  • Tracks8
  • Tennis6
  • Basketball5
  • Softball4
  • Football2

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

Next door

Kelso and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Kelso7.6%6.2 mi5
Longview9.3%22.6 mi16
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Kelso'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 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.

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