1
Veteran's Memorial Park
Park
41 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon, IL parks, trails & bike paths
About 1.2% of Mount Vernon is conserved land, roughly 110 acres. There are about 8.9 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Veteran's Memorial Park (1.2 mi) and Lincoln Park (1.1 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Mount Vernon, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Mount Vernon outdoors
Conserved land
1.2%
110 of 9,386 acres
Trails
8.9 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
9
8 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
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
Lincoln Park
Park
78 acres1.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Goldman-Kuenz Sculpture Park at Cedarhurst
Managed by Cedarhurst Center for the Arts
62 acres
Dogs allowedMapped in OpenStreetMap
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
4
Jefferson County Fairground
Park
42 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 9 parks & preserves
- Bob Strothman Baseball Park10 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Airport Park8 ac · Directions
- Fairmont Ballpark7 ac · Directions
- Al Dawson Senior Park5 ac · Directions
- Optimist Park5 ac
Who protects the land
110 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
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
- Baseball15
- Tennis12
- Basketball6
- Soccer3
- Tracks2
- Football2
- Softball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Mount Vernon and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Vernon | 1.2% | 8.9 mi | 9 |
| Mount Vernon | 0.3% | 7.4 mi | 8 |
| Dodds | 3% | 3.1 mi | 1 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Mount Vernon'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 20.5-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.