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Kilgour Park
Park
13 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Sterling
Sterling, IL parks, trails & bike paths
About 2.1% of Sterling is conserved land, roughly 322 acres. There are about 5.5 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Kilgour Park (0.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Sterling, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Sterling outdoors
Conserved land
2.1%
322 of 15,560 acres
Trails
5.5 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
19
19 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
5.4 mi
3.7 mi lanes · 1.7 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
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
Platt Park
Park
8 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Sinnissippi Park
Park
94 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Gartner Park
Park
36 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 19 parks & preserves
- Central Memorial Park3 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Wallace Park3 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Dillon Home7 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Redfield Park4 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Propheter Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Oppold Marina32 ac · Directions
- Eberly Park24 ac
- Hoover Park21 ac · Directions
- Thomas Park12 ac · Directions
- Scheid Park11 ac · Directions
- Rock River Trail4 ac · Directions
- Harry Kidd Field4 ac · Directions
- Lincoln Park2 ac · Directions
- Dougllas Park2 ac
- Dale Park1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
322 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes3.7 mi
- Off-road bike paths1.7 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball14
- Basketball14
- Tennis14
- Soccer6
- Tracks6
- Pickleball6
- Football3
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Sterling and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sterling | 2.1% | 5.5 mi | 19 |
| Coloma | 2.8% | 2.9 mi | 17 |
| Sterling | 3.6% | 2.8 mi | 16 |
| Hopkins | 0.8% | 1.8 mi | 4 |
| Palmyra | 0.5% | 0.0 mi | 2 |
| Rock Falls | 5.1% | 1.8 mi | 14 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Sterling'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.