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Centenial Park
Park
29 acres0.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Swansea
Swansea, IL parks, trails & bike paths
About 3.1% of Swansea is conserved land, roughly 132 acres. There are about 2.3 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Centenial Park (0.9 mi) and Schranz Memorial Park (0.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Swansea, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Swansea outdoors
Conserved land
3.1%
132 of 4,220 acres
Trails
2.3 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
9 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
6.6 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 6.6 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
Schranz Memorial Park
Managed by Village of Swansea
12 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Melvin Price Memorial City Park
Park
26 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Wolf Branch St. Clair Township Park
Park
6 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land
132 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths6.6 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball8
- Basketball4
- Soccer3
- Tennis2
- Field hockey1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Swansea and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swansea | 3.1% | 2.3 mi | 5 |
| St. Clair | 2.7% | 5.6 mi | 7 |
| Belleville | 2.1% | 4.6 mi | 17 |
| Fairview Heights | 3.2% | 7.0 mi | 3 |
| Shiloh | 6.8% | 4.9 mi | 2 |
| O'Fallon | 5% | 4.7 mi | 9 |
| Caseyville | 2.6% | 11.6 mi | 10 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Swansea'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.