Outdoors · Browning

Browning, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 2.3% of Browning is conserved land, roughly 539 acres. There are about 8.3 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Benton City Park (1.2 mi).

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

At a glance

Browning outdoors

Conserved land
2.3%
539 of 23,211 acres
Trails
8.3 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 1 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
251 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.7 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 4.7 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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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

Benton City Park

Park
70 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

South Marcum Recreational Area

Park
123 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead
3

Rend Lake Dam West Public Use Area

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

Totland Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

539 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
USDA easements (NRCS)
356 ac
Town or city
102 ac
Regional Water Districts
81 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 356 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 paths4.7 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball6
  • Basketball5
  • Tennis5

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

Nearby

Browning and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Browning2.3%8.3 mi4
Benton1.7%4.6 mi1
Barren1.8%5.1 mi8
Denning0.5%8.6 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Browning'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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