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Little River Conservation Area
Managed by Missouri Department of Conservation
459 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Independence
Independence, MO parks, trails & bike paths
About 2.6% of Independence is conserved land, roughly 1,827 acres. There are about 63 miles of mapped trails.
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Independence, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Independence outdoors
Conserved land
2.6%
1,827 of 70,832 acres
Trails
63 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
7
153 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
1.1 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 1.1 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
Indian Field Baseball Park
Managed by City of Kennett
31 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
R.H. Jones Memorial Park
Park
15 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
One Step Ahead Park
Park
6 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 7 parks & preserves
- Sheryl Crow Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Delmo Park5 ac
- 1st Street Green1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
1,827 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,091 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 paths1.1 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball9
- Golf7
- Tennis6
- Basketball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Independence and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Independence'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 46.7-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.