1
Springbrook Prairie
Managed by Forest Preserve District of DuPage County
1,840 acres7.3 mi of trail
Henslow's TrailSpringbrook Prarie Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Naperville
Naperville, IL parks, trails & bike paths
About 17% of Naperville is conserved land, roughly 3,890 acres. There are about 31 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Springbrook Prairie (7.3 mi), McDowell Grove Forest Preserve (3.7 mi), and Centennial Park (1.4 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Naperville, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Naperville outdoors
Conserved land
17%
3,890 of 22,793 acres
Trails
31 mi
0.9 mi per sq mi · 21 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
82
37 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
60.9 mi
2.9 mi lanes · 58.0 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
McDowell Grove Forest Preserve
Managed by Forest Preserve District of DuPage County
469 acres3.7 mi of trail
Black Walnut TrailBoneset TrailMud Lake TrailMaple Woods Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Centennial Park
Managed by Naperville Park District
28 acres1.4 mi of trail
Riverwalk
Dog rules not recorded
4
Sportsman's Park
Managed by Naperville Park District
28 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
5
May Watts Park
Managed by Naperville Park District
29 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
6
Waubonsie Lake Park
Managed by Fox Valley Park District
163 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
7
Knoch Park
Managed by Naperville Park District
42 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
8
Cerny Park
Park
7 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
All 60 parks & preserves
- Burlington Park Forest Preserve52 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Garden Plots Park30 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Riverwalk Park17 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Hobson West Ponds16 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Nike Sports Complex43 ac · 0.4 mi trail · Directions
- Spring Lake Park13 ac · 0.4 mi trail · Directions
- Ridge Park14 ac · 0.3 mi trail · Directions
- Station Boulevard Park3 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Fredehagen Park1 ac · 0.3 mi trail · Directions
- Gartner Park16 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Amberwood Park7 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Sutton Lake Park18 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Kingshill Park18 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Still Park13 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Asbury Park12 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Brush Hill Park11 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Willowgate Square2 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- West Greens Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Big Woods County Forest Preserve72 ac · Directions
- Country Lakes Park38 ac · Directions
- Wildflower Park27 ac · Directions
- Middlebury East Park24 ac
- Cheshire Lake Park24 ac
- Wil-O-Way Commons Park20 ac · Directions
- Summerfield Lake Park16 ac · Directions
- Butterfield Park15 ac · Directions
- Edinburgh Park15 ac
- Carrol Acres15 ac · Directions
- Brighton Ridge Park14 ac · Directions
- Monarch Park13 ac · Directions
- Foxhill Greens Park13 ac · Directions
- Middlebury West Park12 ac · Directions
- Stonebridge Park12 ac · Directions
- Birmingham Park11 ac
- McCarty Park10 ac
- Meadow Lake Park10 ac
- William Freidrich Memorial Park10 ac · Directions
- Westglen Commons Park10 ac · Directions
- Ashton Pointe Park10 ac · Directions
- Ginger Woods Park9 ac
- Atwater Park9 ac
- Bainbridge Greens Park9 ac · Directions
- Harris Fawell Park8 ac · Directions
- Wil-O-Way Park8 ac
- Frontenac Park8 ac · Directions
- Queensbury Greens Park8 ac · Directions
- Clearwood Park7 ac
- Westglen Park7 ac · Directions
- Briarwood Park6 ac · Directions
- Century Farms Park6 ac · Directions
- Andover Park6 ac
- Mill Street Park6 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
3,890 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 118 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 4 of 100 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes2.9 mi
- Off-road bike paths58.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
- Southern DuPage Regional Trail (bike route)1.1 mi
- Springbrook Prarie Trail (bike route)1.1 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis113
- Basketball51
- Baseball46
- Pickleball30
- Soccer22
- Football14
- Volleyball12
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Naperville and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Naperville | 17.1% | 31.2 mi | 82 |
| Lisle | 10.5% | 55.4 mi | 120 |
| Winfield | 14.1% | 32.6 mi | 42 |
| Aurora | 7.2% | 26.7 mi | 93 |
| Naperville | 8.4% | 25.0 mi | 133 |
| Warrenville | 4.4% | 2.5 mi | 12 |
| Aurora | 10.2% | 35.5 mi | 119 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Naperville'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.