Outdoors · Glen Carbon

Glen Carbon, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 4.2% of Glen Carbon is conserved land, roughly 280 acres. Glen Carbon has 4 named parks and preserves on the map.

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

At a glance

Glen Carbon outdoors

Conserved land
4.2%
280 of 6,660 acres
Trails
0.7 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
4
20 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
12.4 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 12.4 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

Greenspace East Park

Park
81 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Ray M Schon Memorial Park

Park
70 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead
3

Miner Park

Park
17 acres0.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Glen Carbon Village Hall Park

Park
3 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

280 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
173 ac
County
170 ac
Town or city
18 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 19 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 12 parcels. 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 paths12.4 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Basketball8
  • Baseball7
  • Tennis4
  • Soccer2
  • Softball1
  • Tracks1

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

Nearby

Glen Carbon and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Glen Carbon4.2%0.7 mi4
Edwardsville3.6%20.8 mi16
Maryville4.4%1.3 mi4
Pontoon Beach24.4%5.5 mi1
Edwardsville4.9%22.3 mi21
Collinsville3.4%6.6 mi12
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Glen Carbon'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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