Outdoors · New Lenox

New Lenox, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 6.3% of New Lenox is conserved land, roughly 648 acres. There are about 2.3 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

New Lenox outdoors

Conserved land
6.3%
648 of 10,237 acres
Trails
2.3 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
21
23 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
12.9 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 12.9 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

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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Crystal Springs Park

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

Palmer Valley Park

Park
6 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Hadley Valley Preserve

Managed by Forest Preserve District of Will County
155 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Lower Spring Creek County Forest Preserve

Park
24 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 21 parks & preserves
  • Schoolhouse Manor Park9 ac · 0.2 mi trail
  • Sky Harbor Park4 ac · 0.2 mi trail
  • Sharon's Bay Park9 ac · 0.1 mi trail
  • Walker Country Estates Park13 ac
  • Leigh Creek South Park9 ac
  • Walona Park7 ac · Directions
  • Haines Wayside Park7 ac
  • Freedom Park7 ac · Directions
  • Lions Park6 ac · Directions
  • Jacob Lowell Park5 ac
  • Wildflower Park5 ac
  • Fieldstone Park4 ac · Directions
  • Corcoran Park4 ac
  • Wildwood Park4 ac · Directions
  • Laurel Meadow4 ac · Directions
  • Taylor Glen Park3 ac
  • Royal Meadows Park2 ac
Who protects the land

648 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Regional agency
288 ac
Town or city
246 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
114 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 114 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 paths12.9 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball33
  • Basketball5
  • Tennis5
  • Volleyball2
  • Skate park1
  • Pickleball1
  • Soccer1

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.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
New Lenox6.3%2.3 mi21
Joliet6%11.6 mi69
Mokena5.8%5.3 mi14
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 21.5-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.

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