Outdoors · Mattoon

Mattoon, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 1.9% of Mattoon is conserved land, roughly 122 acres. There are about 4.4 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Mattoon outdoors

Conserved land
1.9%
122 of 6,567 acres
Trails
4.4 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
7
7 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
5.7 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 5.7 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

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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

Kinzel Field

Park
22 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Peterson Park

Park
20 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Lytle Park

Park
11 acres0.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Lawson Park

Park
11 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 7 parks & preserves
  • Vanlaningham Park4 ac
  • Cunningham Park2 ac
  • Kinzel Park1 ac
Who protects the land

122 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city
109 ac
Regional agency
13 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths5.7 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball26
  • Tennis14
  • Basketball5
  • Football4
  • Pickleball4
  • Soccer3
  • Tracks1

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

Next door

Mattoon and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Mattoon1.9%4.4 mi7
Lafayette0.5%10.3 mi2
Charleston15.8%3.3 mi12
Mattoon0.4%7.8 mi8
Humboldt0%3.8 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Mattoon'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 25.3-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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