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Nowell Park
Park
25 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Joliet
Joliet, IL parks, trails & bike paths
About 3.3% of Joliet is conserved land, roughly 761 acres. There are about 5.7 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Nowell Park (0.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Joliet, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Joliet outdoors
Conserved land
3.3%
761 of 22,979 acres
Trails
5.7 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
24
9 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
12.7 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 12.7 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
Forest Park
Park
12 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Garnsey Park
Park
8 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Heggie Park
Managed by Joliet Park District
5 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 24 parks & preserves
- West Park33 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Sanchez Memorial Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Joliet Iron Works Historic Site46 ac · Directions
- Highland Park41 ac · Directions
- Belmont Park19 ac
- Saint Joseph's Park12 ac
- Route 66 Park10 ac · Directions
- Oak Valley Park8 ac
- Billie Limacher Bicentennial Park7 ac · Directions
- Pilcher Park6 ac · Directions
- Ridgewood Park6 ac · Directions
- Marquette Park3 ac
- Vernando Park2 ac
- Cunningham Park2 ac
- Legion Park2 ac
- Osgood Park2 ac · Directions
- Desmond Field1 ac
- Warren - Sharpe Playground1 ac
- Forest Park Playlot1 ac
- Gutierrez Park1 ac
Who protects the land
761 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1 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 paths12.7 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball32
- Tennis22
- Basketball6
- Soccer3
- Football2
- Softball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Joliet and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Joliet'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.