Outdoors · Southern View

Southern View, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 7.2% of Southern View is conserved land, roughly 31 acres. There are about 1.3 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Southern View Community Park (1.2 mi).

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

At a glance

Southern View outdoors

Conserved land
7.2%
31 of 430 acres
Trails
1.3 mi
1.9 mi per sq mi · 1 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
18 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
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.

Map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

12
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.
1

Southern View Community Park

Park
30 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Jack McDonald Village Park

Park
4 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Playgrounds in Southern View
Unnamed playground in Southern View Community Park
Directions
Unnamed playground in Southern View Community Park
Directions
Unnamed playground in Jack McDonald Village Park
Directions
Unnamed playground
Directions
Who protects the land

31 conserved acres

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

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball3
  • Soccer2
  • Tennis2
  • Basketball2
  • Field hockey1

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

Public lands

The biggest protected places in Southern View

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
Local Park 31 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Southern View Community ParkLocal ParkTown or city30Open
Unkhown ParkLocal ParkTown or city1Open
Nearby

Southern View and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Southern View7.2%1.3 mi2
Woodside0.9%2.1 mi6
Capital5.6%46.1 mi54
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Southern View'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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