Outdoors · Big Mound

Big Mound, IL parks, trails & bike paths

There are about 7.2 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Big Mound outdoors

Conserved land
0.7%
238 of 33,088 acres
Trails
7.2 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
204 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 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

Wayne County Fairgrounds

Park
38 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Southwest Park

Managed by City of Fairfield, IL
12 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

238 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
USDA easements (NRCS)
224 ac
Town or city
14 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 224 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 paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball3
  • Football1
  • Softball1

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

Nearby

Big Mound and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Big Mound0.7%7.2 mi2
Orel0%2.0 mi0
Crouch0%7.4 mi0
Lamard0%3.7 mi0
Arrington2%2.3 mi0
Fairfield2.9%0.3 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Big Mound'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 23.8-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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