Outdoors · Lawrence

Lawrence, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 11% of Lawrence is conserved land, roughly 3,048 acres. There are about 12 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Lawrenceville City Park (1 mi).

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

At a glance

Lawrence outdoors

Conserved land
11%
3,048 of 26,814 acres
Trails
12 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
1
494 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 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

Lawrenceville City Park

Park
19 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

3,048 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
USDA easements (NRCS)
2,842 ac
State natural resources
360 ac
Town or city
25 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2,663 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 paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Pickleball3
  • Tennis3
  • Baseball2
  • Football1

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

Nearby

Lawrence and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Lawrence11.4%11.8 mi1
Allison9.8%15.0 mi0
Bridgeport0.2%12.9 mi0
Bond5.4%1.9 mi0
Denison2.2%11.7 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Lawrence'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 21.2-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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