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Izaak Walton Preserve
Managed by Izaak Walton League
170 acres1.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Homewood
Homewood, IL parks, trails & bike paths
About 5.5% of Homewood is conserved land, roughly 176 acres. There are about 5.2 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Izaak Walton Preserve (1.9 mi), Apollo Park (0.7 mi), and Patriots Park (0.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Homewood, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Homewood outdoors
Conserved land
5.5%
176 of 3,211 acres
Trails
5.2 mi
1 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
20
9 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
1.5 mi
0.5 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
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
Apollo Park
Managed by Homewood-Flossmoor Park District
32 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Patriots Park
Managed by Homewood-Flossmoor Park District
12 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Woodbrough Park
Managed by Homewood-Flossmoor Park District
6 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Dolphin Lake Park
Managed by Homewood-Flossmoor Park District
10 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Indian Trail Park
Managed by Homewood-Flossmoor Park District
9 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 20 parks & preserves
- Well Park9 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Willow Park5 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Orchard Park8 ac
- Lions Park8 ac · Directions
- Richard D. Irwin Park7 ac
- Millennium Park6 ac
- Pinewood Park6 ac
- Hollydale Park4 ac · Directions
- Merchants Park2 ac
- Scandia Park2 ac
- Hillcrest Park1 ac
- Heritage Park1 ac
- Tower Park1 ac
- Independence Park1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
176 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.5 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.2 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.9 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball12
- Tennis4
- Pickleball4
- Beach volleyball2
- Skate park1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Homewood and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Homewood'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.