Des Moines

Hiking routes around Des Moines

54 waymarked hiking routes run within 15 km of Des Moines: 1 national, 29 regional and 24 local.

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Around Des Moines

One long-distance trail passes through: American Discovery Trail (8,036 km). Dragoon Trail has more of its length here than any other route: 47 km within 15 km, of 309 km in all. Regional routes account for the largest share: 255 of the 340 km of waymarked route within 15 km. Most of the 24 local routes are short walks: 24 of them are under 10 km.

The routes with most of their length within 15 km

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

Good to know

  • Routes from Waymarked Trails, which draws the hiking routes mapped on OpenStreetMap (data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); counted on Oct 19, 2026.
  • Only routes someone has mapped as a route on OpenStreetMap are counted. Signposted paths no one has mapped, and walks without waymarks, are not.
  • Lengths within 15 km are measured on Waymarked Trails’ simplified lines and take in a route’s branches and variants; a path two routes share counts for each. A route’s length in all follows its main line along the mapped ways, and those marked “about” come from the simplified lines.

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