1
Des Plaines State Fish and Wildlife Area
Managed by Illinois Department of Natural Resources
1,299 acres4.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Wilmington
Wilmington, IL parks, trails & bike paths
About 35% of Wilmington is conserved land, roughly 8,056 acres. There are about 12 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Des Plaines State Fish and Wildlife Area (4.6 mi) and Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie (3.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Wilmington, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Wilmington outdoors
Conserved land
35%
8,056 of 22,871 acres
Trails
12 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 9 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
7
1,362 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.1 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 4.1 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
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
Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie
Managed by United States Forest Service
4,422 acres3.6 mi of trail
Prairie Creek Woods TrailDetour
Dog rules not recorded
3
Grant Creek Prairie Nature Preserve
Nature preserve
74 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
South Island Park
Park
32 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land
8,056 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. 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 paths4.1 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball4
- Soccer2
- Tennis2
- Softball1
- Football1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Wilmington and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilmington | 35.2% | 12.2 mi | 7 |
| Florence | 45.9% | 2.6 mi | 2 |
| Channahon | 29.8% | 13.8 mi | 7 |
| Felix | 0.2% | 0.6 mi | 4 |
| Goose Lake | 20.5% | 23.3 mi | 2 |
| Reed | 4.3% | 11.7 mi | 3 |
| Wilmington | 30.9% | 1.1 mi | 5 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Wilmington'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.