Outdoors · Bedford

Bedford, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 1.1% of Bedford is conserved land, roughly 211 acres. There are about 4.1 miles of mapped trails.

Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Bedford, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

At a glance

Bedford outdoors

Conserved land
1.1%
211 of 18,891 acres
Trails
4.1 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
23 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.1 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.1 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

12
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.
1

Skeet Gehrman Park

Managed by Bedford Charter Township
5 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Wabascon Lake Boating Access Site

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

211 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Private owners
211 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.1 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball1
  • Tennis1
  • Basketball1

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Nearby

Bedford and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Bedford1.1%4.1 mi2
Battle Creek4.1%30.3 mi34
Pennfield0.8%1.6 mi5
Ross15.9%36.5 mi9
Springfield3.1%0.3 mi5
Johnstown1%0.0 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Bedford'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-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.

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