Outdoors · Clarksburg

Clarksburg, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 3% of Clarksburg is conserved land, roughly 520 acres. There are about 4.5 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Hidden Springs State Forest (2.6 mi).

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

At a glance

Clarksburg outdoors

Conserved land
3%
520 of 17,260 acres
Trails
4.5 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
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.
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Hidden Springs State Forest

Managed by Illinois Department of Natural Resources
456 acres2.6 mi of trail
Rocky Spring Nature TrailPossum Hollow Interpretive Nature Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Picnic areas in Clarksburg
Rolling Meadows Picnic AreaIn Hidden Springs State Forest
Directions
Trails

Named trails

Unpaved 2.5 mi
  • Rocky Spring Nature Trail2.2 mi
  • Possum Hollow Interpretive Nature Trail0.3 mi
  • 600 North0.2 mi
  • 900 North0.1 mi
Water

Lakes & rivers

Tap a name for directions.

Who protects the land

520 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
474 ac
Regional Water Districts
46 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 46 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

  • Baseball1

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

Public lands

The biggest protected places in Clarksburg

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
State Resource Management Area 474 acConservation Easement 46 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Hidden Springs State ForestState Resource Management AreaState natural resources474Open
History

Historic places to visit

Graybill CemeteryCemetery
Howe CemeteryCemetery
Mount Hermon CemeteryCemetery
Mount Zion CemeteryCemetery
Union CemeteryCemetery
Watton CemeteryCemetery
Nearby

Clarksburg and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Clarksburg3%4.5 mi1
Shelbyville1.6%8.0 mi4
Lakewood0.1%4.4 mi0
Prairie1.8%2.6 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Clarksburg'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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