Outdoors · Denver

Denver, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 26% of Denver is conserved land, roughly 5,808 acres. There are about 4.8 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Denver outdoors

Conserved land
26%
5,808 of 22,543 acres
Trails
4.8 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
0
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

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.
Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Peaks in Denver
Onion Hill561 ft elevation
Directions
Trails

Named trails

  • County Road 1750 North0.4 mi
  • County Road 1450 North0.4 mi
Water

Lakes & rivers

Tap a name for directions.

Who protects the land

5,808 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Private owners
5,808 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Public lands

The biggest protected places in Denver

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
Private Conservation 5,808 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Prairie Ridge - Jasper CountyPrivate ConservationPrivate owners5,808Closed
History

Historic places to visit

Houser CemeteryCemetery
Pleasant View CemeteryCemetery
Wakefield CemeteryCemetery
Nearby

Denver and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Denver25.8%4.8 mi0
Noble0%15.0 mi0
Pixley0%6.7 mi0
Preston0%12.4 mi0
Smallwood74.1%4.8 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Denver'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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