Outdoors · Riverdale

Riverdale, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 2.2% of Riverdale is conserved land, roughly 52 acres. There are about 1.4 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Riverdale Park (0.5 mi).

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

At a glance

Riverdale outdoors

Conserved land
2.2%
52 of 2,386 acres
Trails
1.4 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
8
5 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.4 mi
0.7 mi lanes · 2.7 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

Riverdale Park

Managed by Riverdale Park District
13 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Kickapoo Woods

Managed by Forest Preserve District of Cook County
149 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Whistler Woods

Managed by Forest Preserve District of Cook County
138 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
4

Calumet Woods

Managed by Forest Preserve District of Cook County
106 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

52 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Regional agency
39 ac
Town or city
13 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.7 mi
  • Off-road bike paths2.7 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes1.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis5
  • Basketball2

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Nearby

Riverdale and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Riverdale2.2%1.4 mi8
Calumet1.6%1.4 mi9
Chicago8%239.6 mi520
Blue Island1.5%0.6 mi7
Dixmoor0%0.1 mi2
Thornton6.6%19.3 mi86
Dolton3.4%0.1 mi11
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Riverdale'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.

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