Outdoors · Chalmers

Chalmers, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 3.6% of Chalmers is conserved land, roughly 606 acres. There are about 2.5 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Chalmers outdoors

Conserved land
3.6%
606 of 16,918 acres
Trails
2.5 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
1
named on the map
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

Ball Fore Family Entertainment Center

Park
19 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

606 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Regional Water Districts
352 ac
Private owners
151 ac
State conservation
142 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
80 ac
Town or city
19 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 436 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

  • Basketball3
  • Beach volleyball2

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

Public lands

The biggest protected places in Chalmers

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
Conservation Easement 573 acPrivate Conservation 151 acUnknown 19 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Nenawakwa Land And Water ReservePrivate ConservationPrivate owners151Closed
Ball ForeUnknownTown or city19Open
History

Historic places to visit

Bailey CemeteryCemetery
Forest Lawn CemeteryCemetery
Miler GraveCemetery
Old Catholic CemeteryCemetery
Strader CemeteryCemetery
Wayland CemeteryCemetery
Nearby

Chalmers and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Chalmers3.6%2.5 mi1
Macomb5.3%15.2 mi23
Macomb City5.3%15.2 mi23
Colchester10%6.3 mi3
Emmet5.1%4.2 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Chalmers'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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