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May Creek Park
Managed by City of Newcastle
145 acres2.6 mi of trail
May Creek Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Newcastle
Newcastle, WA parks, trails & bike paths
About 8.1% of Newcastle is conserved land, roughly 231 acres. There are about 31 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in May Creek Park (2.6 mi) and Coal Creek Natural Area (1.1 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Newcastle, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Newcastle outdoors
Conserved land
8.1%
231 of 2,831 acres
Trails
31 mi
6.9 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
13
18 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
7.0 mi
4.7 mi lanes · 1.4 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
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.
2
Coal Creek Natural Area
Nature preserve
64 acres1.1 mi of trail
Coal Creek TrailPrimrose Trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
Hazelwood Park
Managed by City of Newcastle
8 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Lake Boren Park
Park
22 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 13 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 13 parks & preserves
May Creek Park145 acres · 2.6 mi of trail · City of Newcastle
Coal Creek Natural Area64 acres · 1.1 mi of trail
Hazelwood Park8 acres · 0.4 mi of trail · City of Newcastle
China Creek Open Space21 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Lake Boren Park22 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park3 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · King County Parks and Recreation
Highlands Park1 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Tralee Park1 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
China Creek Park5 acres
Donegal Park2 acres
Who protects the land
231 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 4 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 2 of 18 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes4.7 mi
- Off-road bike paths1.4 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes1.0 mi
- Waterline Trail (bike route)1 mi
Courts & fields
- Basketball5
- Baseball2
- Soccer2
- Tennis2
- Volleyball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Newcastle and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Newcastle'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.