1
Commons Park
Managed by North Riverside Parks and Recreation Department
21 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · North Riverside
North Riverside, IL parks, trails & bike paths
About 15% of North Riverside is conserved land, roughly 152 acres. There are about 5.4 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Commons Park (0.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in North Riverside, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
North Riverside outdoors
Conserved land
15%
152 of 1,043 acres
Trails
5.4 mi
3.4 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
7
21 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
1.1 mi
0.5 mi lanes · 0.6 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
National Grove Woods Preserve
Managed by Forest Preserve District of Cook County
72 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
McCormick Woods Preserve
Managed by Forest Preserve District of Cook County
27 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Veterans Park
Managed by North Riverside Parks and Recreation Department
16 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 7 parks & preserves
- Callahan Grove Preserve10 ac · Directions
- Brookfield Woods Preserve5 ac
- 26th Street Woods3 ac
Who protects the land
152 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.5 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.6 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball3
- Volleyball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
North Riverside and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Riverside | 14.6% | 5.4 mi | 7 |
| Riverside | 5.3% | 1.2 mi | 7 |
| Proviso | 3.1% | 22.8 mi | 57 |
| Brookfield | 3.7% | 1.7 mi | 8 |
| Berwyn | 1.7% | 2.2 mi | 11 |
| Berwyn | 1.7% | 2.2 mi | 11 |
| Forest Park | 1.2% | 0.3 mi | 2 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about North Riverside'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.