Outdoors · Okaw
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About 9.7% of Okaw is conserved land, roughly 2,205 acres. There are about 18 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Eagle Creek State Park (6.2 mi) and Wolf Creek State Park (0.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Okaw, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
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Conserved land
9.7%
2,205 of 22,640 acres
Trails
18 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 13 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
named on the map
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.
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Conserved land, trails & bike routes
🏖️ Coon Creek Beach 🏖️ Unnamed beach in Wolf Creek State Park 🛶 High Water Ramp 🛶 High Water Ramp 🛶 Lake Shelbyville 🛶 Lake Shelbyville 🛶 Lake Shelbyville 🛶 Lake Shelbyville 🛶 Lake Shelbyville 🛶 Lake Shelbyville 🏕️ Eagle Creek State Park Campground 🏕️ Lone Point 🏕️ Unnamed campground 🏕️ Unnamed campground 1 2
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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 Eagle Creek State Park Managed by Illinois Department of Natural Resources
1,169 acres6.2 mi of trail
Prairie View Trail Snowflake Cross-Country Ski Trail Windy Point Trail Chief Illini Trail High Bluff Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
2 Wolf Creek State Park Managed by Illinois Department of Natural Resources
347 acres0.7 mi of trail
Beach Trail Overlook Trail Lakeview Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
Things to do
Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more
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Trails
Named trails
Unpaved 16.6 mi
Chief Illini Trail 7.7 mi Little Illini Trail 2.6 mi Prairie View Trail 1.3 mi Snowflake Cross-Country Ski Trail 0.9 mi Windy Point Trail 0.8 mi High Bluff Trail 0.5 mi Beach Trail 0.4 mi Campfire Trail 0.3 mi Overlook Trail 0.2 mi Lakeview Trail 0.1 mi Who protects the land
2,205 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
2,205 ac Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
Painted or protected bike lanes 0.0 mi Off-road bike paths 0.0 mi Shoulders & shared lanes 0.0 mi
Public lands
The biggest protected places in Okaw
From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
State Recreation Area 2,188 ac Unknown 17 ac
Place Managed by Acres Public access
Recreation Area State Recreation Area State natural resources 2,188 Open Unnamed Property Unknown State natural resources 17 Open
History
Historic places to visit
🪦 Caldwell Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 Claridge Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 Mahoney Cemetery Cemetery
Nearby
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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.
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