State: IL Length: 1.3 miles Surface: Asphalt
The DeKalb Nature Trail provides a pleasant, tree-lined route in northern DeKalb. Its eastern end connects with the Kishwaukee-Kiwanis Trail that heads southwest along the river and the Dekalb-Sycamore Trail that connects many neighborhoods ...
State: IL Length: 20.7 miles Surface: Asphalt, Concrete
The Dekalb-Sycamore Trail (also known as the Peace Road Trail) parallels the eastern side of Peace Road from Dekalb to Sycamore in northern Illinois. Along the way, you'll pass a mixture of residential neighborhoods, businesses, and open fields. A ...
Rail-Trail
State: IL Length: 2.8 miles Surface: Crushed Stone
The El Paso Walking Trail runs along part of an old railroad right-of-way through the town of El Paso, beginning at the city park on the south side of town and ending at a creek north of town among cultivated fields. The trail offers a pleasant ...
State: IL Length: 4 miles Surface: Asphalt
The Four Sisters Bike Path currently forms a horseshoe around the northern end of Rochelle, a town south of Rockford in northern Illinois. Future plans call for completing the loop, which would provide trail access to most of the town. The paved ...
State: IL Length: 43.4 miles Surface: Asphalt, Concrete, Crushed Stone
The Fox River Trail features 32 miles of spectacular biking, hiking and cross-country skiing along the scenic Fox River. The paved path can be challenging at times, but the extra pedal pushing is rewarded with some impressive scenery along the ...
State: IL Length: 17 miles Surface: Asphalt, Crushed Stone
The western segment of the Great Western Trail in Illinois follows 17 miles of an abandoned railway corridor through DeKalb and Kane counties, between Leroy Oaks County Forest Preserve and the town of Sycamore. The Chicago Great Western Railway ...
State: IL Length: 2 miles Surface: Asphalt
About the southern-most section of the Chicagoland metropolitan area. The trail begins on the east side of Grove Road, then at the parking lot entrance to the high school it changes over to the west side and continues all the way to the south ...
State: IL Length: 105 miles Surface: Asphalt, Crushed Stone
The Hennepin Canal Parkway follows an old towpath that was actually never used, although the locks and aqueducts are in still in place. It was originally built to link the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. The 105-mile path is level and easy; ...
State: IL Length: 68.5 miles Surface: Crushed Stone, Gravel
The Illinois & Michigan Canal provided the first complete water route from the East Coast to the Gulf of Mexico by connecting Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River via the Illinois River. Today, the I&M Canal trail has preserved 80 of the original ...
State: IL Length: 7.9 miles Surface: Ballast, Grass, Gravel
The Joe Stengel Trail follows an old railroad corridor for 7 miles between the town of Polo and the much smaller community of Woosung. The trail corridor traces farm country along a route scattered with trees. The natural surface can be rough ...
State: IL Length: 4.5 miles Surface: Asphalt
The Kishwaukee-Kiwanis Trail winds through the northern Illinois town of DeKalb, coursing along a river, through woodlands, among open spaces through parks and through suburban back yards. The trail passes along the east side of Northern Illinois ...
State: IL Length: 3.5 miles Surface: Asphalt
The Lowell Parkway Trail runs through the charming town of Dixon, Illinois, boyhood home of Ronald Reagan. The trail occupies the rail bed of the old Illinois Central Railroad, between Lowell Park and John C. Roe Park, on the northwest side ...
State: IL Length: 0.25 miles Surface: Asphalt
Oregon Park East Bike Path is nestled along the east bank of the Rock River in the small town of Oregon in northern Illinois. The 23-acre park offers athletic facilities, restrooms, grills, and picnic tables, as well as an observation deck for ...
State: IL Length: 30.6 miles Surface: Asphalt, Crushed Stone
The Rock Island Trail has two distinct section components. The southern section goes from W. Northmoor Road in Peoria to the community of Alta. Managed by the Peoria Park District, this newer and rapidly expanding section is currently 4.25 miles ...
State: IL Length: 11.5 miles Surface: Asphalt
The Virgil Gilman Trail travels through forest and prairie, from a quiet, rural community college campus all the way into suburban Chicago. The trail's namesake, Virgil Gilman,was director of the Fox Valley Park District for 30 years and successfully ...
State: IL Length: 1.9 miles Surface: Asphalt
This is a short paved trail near the community of Boulder Hill. The trail extends from Douglas Road to Brock Way though a greenway corridor within a residential community.