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Higginbotham Woods
Managed by Joliet Park District
234 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · New Lenox
New Lenox, IL parks, trails & bike paths
About 7.8% of New Lenox is conserved land, roughly 1,782 acres. There are about 3.9 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Higginbotham Woods (0.8 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in New Lenox, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
New Lenox outdoors
Conserved land
7.8%
1,782 of 22,891 acres
Trails
3.9 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
30
40 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
31.1 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 31.1 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
Palmer Valley Park
Park
6 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Crystal Springs Park
Park
9 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Pilcher Park
Managed by Joliet Park District
455 acres0.1 mi of trail
Artesian Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 30 parks & preserves
- Schoolhouse Manor Park10 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Sky Harbor Park4 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Hickory Creek Preserve233 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Sharon's Bay Park10 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Hadley Valley Preserve385 ac · Directions
- Potawatomi Woods118 ac · Directions
- Fox Ridge Park28 ac
- Walker Country Estates Park13 ac
- Walona Park9 ac · Directions
- Leigh Creek South Park8 ac
- Haines Wayside Park8 ac
- Freedom Park7 ac · Directions
- Lions Park6 ac · Directions
- Jacob Lowell Park6 ac
- Wildflower Park5 ac
- Fieldstone Park5 ac · Directions
- Corcoran Park5 ac
- Wildwood Park4 ac · Directions
- Laurel Meadow4 ac · Directions
- Taylor Glen Park3 ac
- Lower Spring Creek County Forest Preserve2 ac
- Royal Meadows Park2 ac
- Spencer Park1 ac
- Boulder Ridge North Park1 ac
- Woodmere Tot Lot1 ac
- Riivendell Park1 ac
Who protects the land
1,782 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 398 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths31.1 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball42
- Tennis25
- Basketball5
- Football2
- Soccer2
- Volleyball2
- Skate park1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
New Lenox and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about New Lenox'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.