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Crow Island Woods
Managed by Winnetka Park District
17 acres0.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Winnetka
Winnetka, IL parks, trails & bike paths
About 9.5% of Winnetka is conserved land, roughly 235 acres. There are about 5.6 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Crow Island Woods (0.9 mi) and Skokie Lagoons South (0.8 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Winnetka, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Winnetka outdoors
Conserved land
9.5%
235 of 2,476 acres
Trails
5.6 mi
1.4 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
19
19 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.8 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 3.0 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
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
Skokie Lagoons South
Managed by Forest Preserve District of Cook County
133 acres0.8 mi of trail
North Branch Yellow Unpaved Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Centennial Park
Managed by Winnetka Park District
5 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
4
Skokie Lagoons Central
Managed by Forest Preserve District of Cook County
35 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Duke Childs Field
Managed by Winnetka Park District
18 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
6
Indian Hill Park
Managed by Winnetka Park District
4 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 19 parks & preserves
- Hibbard Woods Preserve7 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Tower Road Park3 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Hubbard Woods Park1 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Lloyd Park7 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Elder Lane Park4 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Village Green Park4 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Maple Street Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Bell Woods Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Franklin Dunbaugh Park1 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Dwyer Park1 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Nick Corwin Park6 ac
- West Elm Street Park5 ac
- Sheridan Park3 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
235 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 paths3.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes1.8 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis23
- Baseball8
- Football2
- Soccer2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Winnetka and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winnetka | 9.5% | 5.6 mi | 19 |
| New Trier | 7.8% | 33.7 mi | 66 |
| Glencoe | 3.2% | 5.8 mi | 26 |
| Kenilworth | 2.5% | 0.4 mi | 3 |
| Northfield | 11.5% | 4.5 mi | 10 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Winnetka'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.