–Not graded

Outdoors in Dash Township

Few parks or trails are on the map in Dash Township

30% of Dash Township’s land is conserved, about 8,392 acres. 35 miles of mapped trail cross Dash Township, 0.8 per square mile of land.

Conserved land

30%

8,392 acres · of 44.3 sq mi of land

Trails

35 mi

0.8 per sq mi of land

Near a park

under 1%

of residents within ½ mile

The map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it.

Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US

Who protects it

8,392 conserved acres

30% of Dash Township’s land. Who manages Dash Township’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service7,576 ac

State land board1,093 ac

Conservation Easement · 7,154 acState Resource Management Area · 1,093 acResource Management Area · 259 acNational Wildlife Refuge · 162 ac

Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 7,088 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. The walks above are places people visit.

The biggest protected parcels

Parcel (PAD-US)	Managed by	Acres	Public access
Nd State Lands - Surface Ownership State Resource Management Area	State land board	1,093	Open
Towner County Waterfowl Production Area Resource Management Area	U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service	422	Restricted

Trails & water

14 named trails

Named trails

Unpaved · 34.5 mi

107th Street Northeast5.7 mi

105th Street Northeast4.9 mi

108th Street Northeast3.5 mi

77th Avenue Northeast3.0 mi

104th Street Northeast2.9 mi

72nd Avenue Northeast2.8 mi

102nd Street Northeast2.3 mi

73rd Avenue Northeast1.9 mi

109th Street Northeast1.4 mi

74th Avenue Northeast1.2 mi

4 more trails

103rd Street Northeast

0.9 mi

75th Avenue Northeast

0.8 mi

78th Avenue Northeast

0.5 mi

76th Avenue Northeast

0.1 mi

When to get out

The best walking months in Dash Township: August and September

NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals for the town and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 59 to 86 °F and little rain for the place.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Daylight (h)	8.7	10.1	11.7	13.6	15.3	16.2	15.8	14.4	12.5	10.7	9.1	8.3
High (°F)	14	19	31	50	64	73	78	78	68	52	33	19
Rain (in)	0.5	0.6	0.7	1.0	2.7	3.6	3.2	2.5	1.8	1.4	0.8	0.7

January is the driest month (0.5 in) and July the warmest (highs of 78 °F). 3.6 inches fall in June, the wettest month. The climate in Dash Township →

Next door

Dash Township and its neighbors

Dash Township has the most mapped trails of the 4 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.

Dash Township35 mi Cypress Township33 mi Smith Township31 mi Lansing Township24 mi

Town	Conserved of land	Trail mi per sq mi	Park acres per 1,000	Near a park ½ mile	Outdoors
Dash Township	— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Smith Township	— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Cypress Township	— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Lansing Township	— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.

Questions about parks and trails in Dash Township

Is there public land near Dash Township?

5,292 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Dash Township or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 1,106 of them inside the town line.

Trail talk

Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Dash Township neighbors.

Town Square →

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Conserved and public land: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), service updated July 2026. Parks, trails, playgrounds, beaches and other places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), map data as of 2026-10-28. Land and water area: Census 2025 Gazetteer. Residents near a park: 2020 Census blocks. National Register: National Park Service. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →

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