Outdoors · Forest Park

Forest Park, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 1.2% of Forest Park is conserved land, roughly 19 acres. Forest Park has 2 named parks and preserves on the map.

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

At a glance

Forest Park outdoors

Conserved land
1.2%
19 of 1,528 acres
Trails
0.3 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
1 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
2.2 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.2 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

12
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

Forest Park

Managed by Park District of Forest Park
20 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Reiger Park

Managed by Park District of Forest Park
1 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

19 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Regional agency
18 ac
Town or city
1 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.2 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes2.1 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis6
  • Baseball3
  • Beach volleyball2
  • Hockey rinks1
  • Soccer1
  • Skate park1

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

Next door

Forest Park and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Forest Park1.2%0.3 mi2
Maywood2.4%0.6 mi7
River Forest1.9%7.1 mi14
River Forest1.9%7.1 mi14
Proviso3.1%22.8 mi57
North Riverside14.6%5.4 mi7
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Forest Park'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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