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Lundquist Bicentennial Park
Park
6 acres0.3 mi of trail
Riverwalk
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Elkhart
Elkhart, IN parks, trails & bike paths
About 2.7% of Elkhart is conserved land, roughly 515 acres. There are about 5.5 miles of mapped trails.
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Elkhart, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Elkhart outdoors
Conserved land
2.7%
515 of 18,824 acres
Trails
5.5 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
19
10 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
13.8 mi
4.0 mi lanes · 8.3 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
Studebaker Park
Park
91 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
American Park
Park
44 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
McNaughton Park
Park
26 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 19 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 19 parks & preserves
Lundquist Bicentennial Park6 acres · 0.3 mi of trail
Central Park2 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Studebaker Park91 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Walker Park18 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · Elkhart City Parks
High Dive Park15 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Island Park8 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
American Park44 acres
McNaughton Park26 acres
Riverview Park16 acres
Langle Park5 acres
Who protects the land
515 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes4.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths8.3 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes1.6 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis38
- Baseball17
- Basketball11
- Soccer8
- Pickleball6
- Football4
- Beach volleyball2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Elkhart and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elkhart | 2.7% | 5.5 mi | 19 |
| Dunlap | 6.7% | 6.6 mi | 1 |
| Concord | 3% | 11.1 mi | 19 |
| Baugo | 0.1% | 0.1 mi | 1 |
| Washington | 2.3% | 1.9 mi | 6 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Elkhart'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 27.6-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.