Bay View Woods Park
Park
20 acres0.6 mi of trail
Old Indian Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors in Bay View
1.0 miles of trails in Bay View
About 4.6% of Bay View is conserved land, roughly 11 acres. There are about 1.0 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Bay View Woods Park (0.6 mi).
Conserved land
4.6%
11 of 243 acres
Trails
1.0 mi
2.5 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
1
named on the map
Bike routes
2.2 mi
0.8 mi lanes · 1.4 mi paths
What kind of outdoors town is Bay View?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
This week on the trails
Best day for a walk: Tuesday
62°, sunny, 0% chance of rain.
Today59° 37°2% rain
Sat61° 46°0% rain
Sun63° 39°47% rain
Mon55° 34°2% rain
Tue62° 44°0% rain
Wed66° 44°10% rain
The map
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
★ What stands out · Places to walk
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The longest trail network is Bay View Woods Park, with 0.6 miles. Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.
Things to do
2 places to go in Bay View
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Beaches in Bay View
Playgrounds in Bay View
Trails & water
1 named trail
Named trails
Unpaved · 0.6 mi
Old Indian Trail0.6 mi
Who protects it
11 conserved acres
Who manages Bay View’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Private owners11 ac
Local Park · 11 ac
The biggest protected places
| Place | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Park Local Park | Private owners | 8 | Open |
| Unknown Ballfield Local Park | Private owners | 3 | Open |
Biking & sports
2.2 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
0.8 mi
painted or protected bike lanes
1.4 mi
off-road bike paths
0.0 mi
shoulders & shared lanes
Courts & fields
1Tennis
1Baseball
1Softball
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
Next door
Bay View and its neighbors
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| Town | Conserved | Parks |
|---|---|---|
| Bay View | 4.6% | 1 |
| Bear Creek | 2.4% | 15 |
| Petoskey | 18% | 21 |
Trail talk
Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Bay View neighbors.
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Trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, PAD-US. Measured against the Census town boundary. Forecast: National Weather Service.
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.