1
Fort Defiance State Park
Managed by Illinois Department of Natural Resources
126 acres0.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Cairo
Cairo, IL parks, trails & bike paths
About 1.4% of Cairo is conserved land, roughly 82 acres. There are about 13 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Fort Defiance State Park (0.9 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Cairo, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Cairo outdoors
Conserved land
1.4%
82 of 5,799 acres
Trails
13 mi
1.4 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
5
49 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
Saint Mary's Park
Park
15 acres0.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
David Box Twin Rivers Ball Park
Park
5 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Cairo Public Boat Launch
Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 5 parks & preserves
- Lansden Park1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
82 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
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
- Tennis4
- Baseball3
- Basketball3
- Football1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Cairo'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 21.4-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.