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Burlington Prairie Forest Preserve
Nature preserve
825 acres4.7 mi of trail
Wild Turkey Loop (2.09 mi)Coreopsis Trail (1.27 mi)Horned Lark Loop (1.1 mi)
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Burlington
Burlington, IL parks, trails & bike paths
About 4.6% of Burlington is conserved land, roughly 992 acres. There are about 7.0 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Burlington Prairie Forest Preserve (4.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Burlington, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Burlington outdoors
Conserved land
4.6%
992 of 21,490 acres
Trails
7.0 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
599 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
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.
2
Cardinal Creek Forest Preserve
Managed by Forest Preserve District of Kane County
327 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Panther Field
Park
17 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Burlington Park
Park
7 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land
992 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 190 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 5 of 14 parcels. 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
- Basketball2
- Baseball2
- Tennis1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Burlington and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Burlington'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.