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Heritage Canyon Park
Nature preserve
13 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Canyon Parking
Outdoors · Fulton
Fulton, IL parks, trails & bike paths
About 21% of Fulton is conserved land, roughly 2,809 acres. There are about 5.0 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Heritage Canyon Park (0.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Fulton, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Fulton outdoors
Conserved land
21%
2,809 of 13,699 acres
Trails
5.0 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
12
653 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
6.3 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 6.3 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.
2
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge
Managed by United States Fish and Wildlife Service
564 acres
Dog rules not recorded
3
Thomson - Fulton Sand Prairie Nature Preserve
Nature preserve
84 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Drives Park
Park
15 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 12 parks & preserves
- Den Besten Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Pleasure Park5 ac
- Kiwanis Park3 ac · Directions
- Cattail Park3 ac · Directions
- Mickelson's Landing3 ac · Directions
- Thomson Prairie2 ac
- School Park2 ac
- Andresen Nature Center1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
2,809 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 70 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 paths6.3 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball7
- Tennis4
- Basketball1
- Football1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Fulton and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fulton | 20.5% | 5.0 mi | 12 |
| Clinton | 8% | 11.0 mi | 17 |
| Fulton | 4.2% | 1.6 mi | 8 |
| Ustick | 1.5% | 2.0 mi | 0 |
| York | 15.2% | 5.8 mi | 2 |
| Garden Plain | 2.9% | 2.7 mi | 0 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Fulton'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.