1
Plainville City Park
Park
19 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Steele
Steele, IN parks, trails & bike paths
About 1.8% of Steele is conserved land, roughly 507 acres. There are about 14 miles of mapped trails.
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Steele, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Steele outdoors
Conserved land
1.8%
507 of 27,621 acres
Trails
14 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
1
named on the map
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
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.
Things to do
Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more
Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Peaks in Steele
Harbstreit Hill551 ft elevation
Trails
Named trails
Unpaved 13.3 mi
- County Road 1000 North0.8 mi
Who protects the land
507 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 452 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 2 of 8 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 paths0.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis2
- Pickleball1
- Basketball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Public lands
The biggest protected places in Steele
From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
Conservation Easement 497 acPrivate Conservation 51 acState Recreation Area 3 ac
| Place | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thousand Acre WoodsPrivate Conservation | Land trusts & nonprofits | 51 | Open |
| Carnahan Public Access SiteState Recreation Area | State fish & wildlife | 3 | Open |
History
Historic places to visit
Plainville CemeteryCemetery
Nearby
Steele and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steele | 1.8% | 14.0 mi | 1 |
| Vigo | 0.8% | 42.8 mi | 2 |
| Washington | 4.5% | 16.8 mi | 6 |
| Elmore | 1.4% | 9.2 mi | 1 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Steele'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 24.3-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.