Outdoors · Custer

Custer, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 13% of Custer is conserved land, roughly 2,115 acres. There are about 9.0 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Custer outdoors

Conserved land
13%
2,115 of 16,837 acres
Trails
9.0 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
1
1,407 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.1 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.1 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

Kankakee River State Park

Managed by Illinois Department of Natural Resources
596 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

2,115 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
987 ac
Regional agency
535 ac
County
505 ac
State conservation
412 ac
Private owners
249 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1 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 paths0.1 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Nearby

Custer and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Custer12.6%9.0 mi1
Wesley11%5.0 mi1
Salina0.2%0.0 mi1
Wilmington30.9%1.1 mi5
Reed4.3%11.7 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Custer'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 24.1-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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