Outdoors · Dewey

Dewey, IN parks, trails & bike paths

About 1.4% of Dewey is conserved land, roughly 315 acres. There are about 2.7 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Dewey outdoors

Conserved land
1.4%
315 of 22,803 acres
Trails
2.7 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
280 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 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

12
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

Kankakee Fish & Wildlife Area

Managed by Indiana Department of Natural Resources
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Vermar Park

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

315 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State fish & wildlife
273 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
43 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 43 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 paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball2
  • Basketball1

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

Public lands

The biggest protected places in Dewey

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
State Conservation Area 273 acConservation Easement 43 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Kankakee River SwamplandState Conservation AreaState fish & wildlife254Open
Kankakee Fish and Wildlife AreaState Conservation AreaState fish & wildlife18Restricted
History

Historic places to visit

Oak Grove CemeteryCemetery
Saint Martins CemeteryCemetery
Nearby

Dewey and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Dewey1.4%2.7 mi2
Railroad2.3%0.2 mi2
Pleasant1.4%6.4 mi3
Cass0%1.8 mi2
Prairie10.5%1.1 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Dewey'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 21.8-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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