Outdoors · Marshall

Marshall, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 1.5% of Marshall is conserved land, roughly 299 acres. There are about 6.1 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Lincoln Trail State Park (2.6 mi).

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

At a glance

Marshall outdoors

Conserved land
1.5%
299 of 20,238 acres
Trails
6.1 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
66 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

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

Lincoln Trail State Park

Managed by Illinois Department of Natural Resources
280 acres2.6 mi of trail
Airstrip TrailPrairieShortcut
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Marshall Soccer Park

Managed by City of Marshall
10 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Marshall Community Pool & Park

Managed by City of Marshall
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Public pools in Marshall
Marshall Community PoolIn Marshall Community Pool & Park
Directions
Trails

Named trails

Unpaved 3.6 mi
  • Airstrip Trail2.4 mi
  • Old US 400.8 mi
  • North Bass Lake0.4 mi
  • Prairie0.2 mi
  • Trail A0.2 mi
  • Shortcut0.1 mi
  • Old Hwy 400.1 mi
Water

Lakes & rivers

Tap a name for directions.

Who protects the land

299 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
276 ac
Town or city
16 ac
County
5 ac
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

  • Baseball5
  • Tennis2
  • Football1

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

Public lands

The biggest protected places in Marshall

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
State Recreation Area 276 acLocal Park 21 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Lincoln Trail State ParkState Recreation AreaState natural resources276Open
Hornbrook FieldsLocal ParkTown or city8Open
Forsythe FieldsLocal ParkTown or city7Open
Fairgrounds ParkLocal ParkCounty3Open
Mill Creek Lake and ParkLocal ParkCounty2Open
Power PlantLocal ParkTown or city1Open
History

Historic places to visit

Marshall City CemeteryCemetery
Mitchell CemeteryCemetery
Saint Marys CemeteryCemetery
Nearby

Marshall and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Marshall1.5%6.1 mi3
Douglas2.7%1.8 mi1
Anderson3.6%8.4 mi1
Wabash3.8%6.8 mi0
Auburn0.2%2.1 mi0
Dolson11.3%4.8 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Marshall'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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