Outdoors · Virgil

Virgil, IL parks, trails & bike paths

About 6.9% of Virgil is conserved land, roughly 1,533 acres. There are about 6.0 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Virgil outdoors

Conserved land
6.9%
1,533 of 22,283 acres
Trails
6.0 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 6 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
893 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.1 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.1 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

123
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

Virgil Forest Preserve

Managed by Forest Preserve District of Kane County
1,141 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Elburn Forest Preserve

Managed by Forest Preserve District of Kane County
53 acres0.1 mi of trail
Eastwoods Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

McAdams Park

Park
3 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

1,533 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Regional agency
1,153 ac
Joint
238 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
238 ac
County
102 ac
Private owners
34 ac
Town or city
5 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 340 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 7 of 16 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.1 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
  • Great Western Trail (bike route)5.8 mi

Courts & fields

  • Equestrian4
  • Baseball2

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

Nearby

Virgil and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Virgil6.9%6.0 mi3
Campton13.1%31.7 mi16
Kaneville16.2%4.9 mi3
Cortland1.3%5.0 mi7
Lily Lake3.4%1.9 mi0
Burlington4.6%7.0 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Virgil'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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