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Clearwater Park
Managed by Mount Prospect Park District
22 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Mount Prospect
Mount Prospect, IL parks, trails & bike paths
About 7.6% of Mount Prospect is conserved land, roughly 521 acres. There are about 2.9 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Clearwater Park (0.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Mount Prospect, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Mount Prospect outdoors
Conserved land
7.6%
521 of 6,835 acres
Trails
2.9 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
29
9 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
21.3 mi
2.0 mi lanes · 11.9 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.
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Hill Street Nature Center
Managed by Mount Prospect Park District
4 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Lions Park
Managed by Mount Prospect Park District
23 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Sunrise Park
Managed by Mount Prospect Park District
10 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 29 parks & preserves
- Tamarack Park2 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Kopp Park29 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Busse Park7 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Aspen Trails Park5 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Fairview Park5 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Prospect Meadows Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Owen Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Emerson Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Maple Trails Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Busse Pocket Park1 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Melas Park70 ac · Directions
- Woodland Trails Park50 ac · Directions
- Sycamore Trails Park19 ac · Directions
- Weller Creek Park16 ac
- Meadows Park15 ac · Directions
- Gregory Park12 ac · Directions
- Tamarack Trails Park11 ac
- Burning Bush Park9 ac
- Sunset Park9 ac · Directions
- Bluett Park4 ac
- Frost Park3 ac
- Countryside Park3 ac
- We-Go Park2 ac
- Gloria Dei Presbyterian Church Walking Ground and Park1 ac
- Centennial Green Park1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
521 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes2.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths11.9 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes7.4 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis45
- Baseball35
- Soccer20
- Basketball18
- Pickleball8
- Football8
- Tracks3
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Mount Prospect and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Prospect | 7.6% | 2.9 mi | 29 |
| Arlington Heights | 4.8% | 10.3 mi | 51 |
| Des Plaines | 4.4% | 7.4 mi | 49 |
| Prospect Heights | 4.7% | 3.1 mi | 9 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Mount Prospect'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.