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Arbuckle Acres Park
Park
53 acres1.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Lincoln
Lincoln, IN parks, trails & bike paths
About 3.4% of Lincoln is conserved land, roughly 521 acres. There are about 3.5 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Arbuckle Acres Park (1.3 mi) and Williams Park (1 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Lincoln, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Lincoln outdoors
Conserved land
3.4%
521 of 15,236 acres
Trails
3.5 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
9
14 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
27.5 mi
0.4 mi lanes · 27.0 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
Williams Park
Park
30 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Lincolnwood Park
Park
53 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Cardinal Park
Park
13 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 9 parks & preserves
Arbuckle Acres Park53 acres · 1.3 mi of trail
Williams Park30 acres · 1 mi of trail
Lincolnwood Park53 acres
Cardinal Park13 acres
Virgil Park6 acres
Hoover Park4 acres
Lincoln Park3 acres
Stephens Park3 acres
Arbuckle Commons Park1 acres
Who protects the land
521 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 11 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 9 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.4 mi
- Off-road bike paths27.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball23
- Tennis19
- Basketball8
- Pickleball6
- Football6
- Soccer4
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Lincoln and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln | 3.4% | 3.5 mi | 9 |
| Washington | 1% | 8.3 mi | 14 |
| Avon | 1.9% | 8.2 mi | 11 |
| Brown | 0% | 0.6 mi | 3 |
| Brownsburg | 4.6% | 3.5 mi | 9 |
| Middle | 0.1% | 0.9 mi | 3 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Lincoln'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.