1
Heritage Park
Park
103 acres2.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Homer
Homer, IL parks, trails & bike paths
About 4.8% of Homer is conserved land, roughly 1,097 acres. There are about 25 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Heritage Park (2.1 mi), Messenger Woods Nature Preserve (1.9 mi), and Willow Walk Park (0.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Homer, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Homer outdoors
Conserved land
4.8%
1,097 of 22,957 acres
Trails
25 mi
0.7 mi per sq mi · 7 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
28
27 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
22.4 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 22.4 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
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
Messenger Woods Nature Preserve
Managed by Forest Preserve District of Will County
449 acres1.9 mi of trail
Messenger Woods trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Willow Walk Park
Park
12 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Edmond J. Sendra Park
Park
7 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 28 parks & preserves
- Evlyn's Gate North Park4 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Town Center Park17 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Stonebridge Park5 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Goreham Park4 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Erin Hills Park1 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Hadley Valley Preserve288 ac · Directions
- Fiddyment Creek Preserve271 ac
- Lower Spring Creek County Forest Preserve23 ac
- Morris Park18 ac · Directions
- Culver Park12 ac · Directions
- Karen Springs Park7 ac
- Victoria Lake Park6 ac
- Homer Healing Garden5 ac
- Oak Creek Park5 ac · Directions
- Yangas Park4 ac
- Goodings Grove Park3 ac · Directions
- Lamers Park3 ac
- Ridge Park3 ac
- Red Oaks Park3 ac
- Parker Ridge Park1 ac
- Victoria Crossing Park1 ac
- Cedar Park1 ac
- Parkside Estates Park1 ac
- Kingston Hills Park1 ac
Who protects the land
1,097 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 507 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 46 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 paths22.4 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
- Spring Creek Greenway (bike route)3.7 mi
- Heroes Trail System (bike route)0.5 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball16
- Basketball9
- Tennis6
- Pickleball6
- Soccer5
- Volleyball3
- Football2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Homer and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homer | 4.8% | 24.6 mi | 28 |
| Homer Glen | 5.1% | 15.1 mi | 17 |
| Orland | 9.8% | 32.0 mi | 59 |
| Lockport | 7.3% | 23.7 mi | 32 |
| Lemont | 3.3% | 52.6 mi | 24 |
| Orland Park | 5.4% | 22.0 mi | 37 |
| New Lenox | 7.8% | 3.9 mi | 30 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Homer'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.