Outdoors · Alba

Alba, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 1.9% of Alba is conserved land, roughly 432 acres. There are about 1.7 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park (0.9 mi).

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

At a glance

Alba outdoors

Conserved land
1.9%
432 of 22,928 acres
Trails
1.7 mi
0 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
1
named on the map
Bike routes
3.9 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 3.9 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

Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park

Managed by Illinois Department of Natural Resources
137 acres0.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead Website
Who protects the land

432 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State conservation
216 ac
Other state land
147 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
69 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 216 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths3.9 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Nearby

Alba and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Alba1.9%1.7 mi1
Annawan4.1%5.6 mi2
Gold2.2%0.0 mi3
Atkinson5.7%0.0 mi2
Annawan2.3%0.0 mi1
Fairfield1%0.0 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Alba'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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