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Oak Ridge Prairie County Park
Park
406 acres2.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · St. John
St. John, IN parks, trails & bike paths
About 7.2% of St. John is conserved land, roughly 1,792 acres. There are about 16 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Oak Ridge Prairie County Park (2.6 mi), Central Park (1.5 mi), and Hoosier Prairie State Nature Preserve (0.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in St. John, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
St. John outdoors
Conserved land
7.2%
1,792 of 25,059 acres
Trails
16 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 15 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
31
25 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
16.6 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 16.6 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
Central Park
Park
69 acres1.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Hoosier Prairie State Nature Preserve
Managed by Indiana Department of Natural Resources
303 acres0.7 mi of trail
Prairie Marsh TrailSavanna TrailAccessible Trail
Dog rules not recorded
4
Northgate Community Park
Park
23 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Pheasant Hills Park
Managed by Dyer Park District
11 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 31 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 31 parks & preserves
Oak Ridge Prairie County Park406 acres · 2.6 mi of trail
Central Park69 acres · 1.5 mi of trail
Hoosier Prairie State Nature Preserve303 acres · 0.7 mi of trail · Indiana Department of Natural Resources
Northgate Community Park23 acres · 0.4 mi of trail
Pheasant Hills Park11 acres · 0.3 mi of trail · Dyer Park District
Teibel Nature Preserve85 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Civic Memorial Park11 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · Town of Saint John
Homestead Acres Park Number 17 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · Town of Saint John
Ivan Gatlin Nature Preserve38 acres
Stephen Park18 acres
Who protects the land
1,792 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 49 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 2 of 70 parcels. 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 paths16.6 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball28
- Tennis18
- Soccer17
- Basketball5
- Tracks3
- Softball2
- Football2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
St. John and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. John | 7.2% | 15.7 mi | 31 |
| Hanover | 0.9% | 0.6 mi | 9 |
| Calumet | 8.8% | 50.7 mi | 63 |
| Griffith | 15.1% | 4.6 mi | 10 |
| Crete | 3.2% | 10.3 mi | 12 |
| Willowbrook | 0.1% | 0.0 mi | 1 |
| Schererville | 10% | 2.7 mi | 12 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about St. John'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 20.8-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.