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Lightning Bend Park
Park
99 acres8.1 mi of trail
Lightning Bend Loop
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Belding
Belding, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 12% of Belding is conserved land, roughly 363 acres. There are about 11 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Lightning Bend Park (8.1 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Belding, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Belding outdoors
Conserved land
12%
363 of 3,117 acres
Trails
11 mi
2.1 mi per sq mi · 8 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
6
61 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
3.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 3.0 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.
2
Central Riverside Park
Managed by City of Belding
15 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Demorest Field
Park
31 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Flat River State Game Area
Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
28 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Who protects the land
363 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths3.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball8
- Soccer4
- Tennis2
- Basketball2
- Football2
- Tracks2
- Softball2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Belding'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.