Outdoors · Gold

Gold, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 2.2% of Gold is conserved land, roughly 509 acres. Gold has 3 named parks and preserves on the map.

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

At a glance

Gold outdoors

Conserved land
2.2%
509 of 22,972 acres
Trails
0.0 mi
0 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
3
named on the map
Bike routes
6.9 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 6.9 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

123
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

Hennepin Canal Feeder Parkway State Park

Managed by Illinois Department of Natural Resources
215 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
2

McCune Sand Prairie

Nature preserve
196 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Hennepin Canal Parkway State Park

Managed by Illinois Department of Natural Resources
83 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

509 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other state land
312 ac
Regional Water Districts
196 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
196 ac
State conservation
196 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths6.9 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Nearby

Gold and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Gold2.2%0.0 mi3
Mineral2%2.3 mi2
Fairfield1%0.0 mi1
Alba1.9%1.7 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Gold'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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