Outdoors · Ball

Ball, IL parks, trails & bike paths

Ball has 6 named parks and preserves on the map.

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

At a glance

Ball outdoors

Conserved land
0.2%
46 of 18,994 acres
Trails
0.4 mi
0 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
6
6 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
2.2 mi
0.5 mi lanes · 1.7 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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Chatham Community Park

Park
34 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Spartan Sports Park

Park
24 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
3

Covered Bridge Park

Park
9 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Jaycee Park

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

46 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city
43 ac
State natural resources
3 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.5 mi
  • Off-road bike paths1.7 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Soccer13
  • Baseball13
  • Tennis11
  • Pickleball8
  • Football5
  • Basketball5
  • Volleyball4

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

Nearby

Ball and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Ball0.2%0.4 mi6
Capital5.6%46.1 mi54
Springfield5.5%46.5 mi54
Chatham2.3%0.0 mi7
Chatham0.6%0.7 mi3
Divernon0%0.2 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Ball'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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