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Parker Trails
The Town of Parker is committed to providing a variety of recreational opportunities. In order to provide bicycle riders, walkers, joggers and equestrians with safe and enjoyable routes, the Town maintains 27+ miles of concrete paved, multi-use trails throughout the Town, as well as 6+ miles of natural surface equestrian trail along Cherry Creek and a 1.8-mile natural surface, multi-use loop trail in the Idyllwilde area.
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Baldwin Gulch Trail
Baldwin Gulch Trail follows an intermittent waterway of the same name from Lincoln Avenue (between Parker Road and Pine Drive) to its current endpoint at Twenty Mile Road in Parker, Colorado.
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Cherry Creek Regional Trail
The Cherry Creek Trail, which is approximately eight miles long through Parker, is the most significant trail resource in the Town; it extends from the Norton Farms Open Space in the north to Stroh Ranch Park in the south in Parker, Colorado.
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East/West Regional Trail
The East-West Trail is an regional trail connection which runs from the Town’s portion of the Cherry Creek Trail westward to the western Town boundary.
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French Creek Trail
The Town’s portion of the French Creek Trail starts at the Cherry Creek Trail (in the Town’s Open Space south of Hess Rd., directly between Stroh Manzanita and Stroh Creekside Meadows subdivisions) and heads northwest into Stroh Manzanita, emptying out at Prince Creek Dr. and French Creek Ave.
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High Plains Trail
The High Plains Trail runs alongside E-470 from Quincy Avenue through Arapahoe and Douglas Counties.
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Newlin Gulch Trail
Newlin Gulch Trail connects the commercial development at Lincoln Avenue and Jordan Road to the Cherry Creek Trail in Parker, Colorado.
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Parker Equestrian Trail
The Parker Equestrian Trail runs roughly parallel to the Cherry Creek Trail throughout the Town’s Open Space corridor. Although independent of the Cherry Creek Trail’s concrete pathway, the Equestrian Trail crosses the concrete pathway in a few spots.
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Prairie Voice Loop
The Prairie Voice Loop Trail is a 1.8-mile native surface (dirt) trail system located at the east end of the Tallman Gulch Trail, between Legend High School and Cimarron Middle School, in the Idyllwilde area.
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Preservation Park & Trailhead
Preservation Park and Trailhead is the northern gateway into Parker and Douglas County, Colorado.
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Rosie Rueter Trail and Incline Challenge
Managed by the Rueter-Hess Recreation Authority, the Incline features 132 steps and the Rosie Rueter Trail loop is just over a mile long
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Sulphur Gulch Trail
The Sulphur Gulch trail, which is approximately four miles long connects to the Cherry Creek Trail within Bar CCC Park and extends east with an undercrossing of Parker Road and continuing along the south side of Mainstreet through Parker, Colorado.
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Tallman Gulch Trail
Tallman Gulch Trail extends from the Idyllwilde community in the southeast corner of Town and connects to the Sulphur Gulch Trail at Stonehenge Way in Parker, Colorado. It passes by the historic Slemmer Barn and Tallman Meadow Park.
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Orienteering Course
Parker Parks and Recreation in Parker Colorado offers permanent orienteering courses along some of their trails. In orienteering, a map is used to locate a series of checkpoints shown on a specialized topographic map.
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Parks, Trails and Facilities Maps
Maps of Parks and Trails for walkers, joggers, bikers and equestrian riders in Parker, Colorado.
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Trail Ambassadors
Parker’s volunteer Trail Rangers assist the Town’s Trails Maintenance Crew by patrolling and reporting on the Town’s 60+ miles of trails, approximately 27 miles of which are directly maintained by the Town of Parker, Colorado.
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