Outdoors · Albany

Albany, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 1.6% of Albany is conserved land, roughly 132 acres. There are about 1.3 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Albany outdoors

Conserved land
1.6%
132 of 8,272 acres
Trails
1.3 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
1
named on the map
Bike routes
1.5 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 1.5 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

Dolan Memorial Park

Park
14 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

132 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Army Corps of Engineers
132 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths1.5 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
  • Great River Trail (bike route)0.7 mi
  • Grand Illinois Trail - East Moline to Mississippi Palisades State Park (bike route)0.7 mi

Courts & fields

  • Basketball1
  • Baseball1

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Next door

Albany and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Albany1.6%1.3 mi1
Cordova2.4%0.0 mi2
Newton0%1.6 mi0
Garden Plain2.9%2.7 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Albany'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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