Outdoors · Blue Island

Blue Island, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 1.5% of Blue Island is conserved land, roughly 40 acres. Blue Island has 7 named parks and preserves on the map.

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

At a glance

Blue Island outdoors

Conserved land
1.5%
40 of 2,647 acres
Trails
0.6 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
7
2 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
3.8 mi
0.8 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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

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

Calumet Woods

Managed by Forest Preserve District of Cook County
82 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Louis S. Viverito Park

Managed by Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
10 acres0.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Memorial Park

Managed by Blue Island Park District
10 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Centennial Park

Managed by Blue Island Park District
6 acres0.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

40 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Regional agency
31 ac
Town or city
7 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.8 mi
  • Off-road bike paths1.5 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes1.4 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis8
  • Baseball6
  • Soccer1

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

Nearby

Blue Island and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Blue Island1.5%0.6 mi7
Calumet Park1%0.1 mi2
Alsip4.1%1.0 mi15
Riverdale2.2%1.4 mi8
Robbins0.2%0.1 mi1
Calumet1.6%1.4 mi9
Dixmoor0%0.1 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Blue Island'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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