1
Newaygo State Park
Park
407 acres3.9 mi of trail
The Dragon Trail - Segment #2The Dragon Trail - Segment #3
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Big Prairie
Big Prairie, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 17% of Big Prairie is conserved land, roughly 3,798 acres. There are about 44 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Newaygo State Park (3.9 mi) and Sandy Beach County Park (1.2 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Big Prairie, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Big Prairie outdoors
Conserved land
17%
3,798 of 23,037 acres
Trails
44 mi
1.2 mi per sq mi · 6 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
1,523 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 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
Sandy Beach County Park
Park
111 acres1.2 mi of trail
The Dragon Trail - Segment #10The Dragon Trail - Segment #9
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Dragon Adventures Base Camp
Park
4 acres
Dog rules not recorded
4
Hardy Dam Reservoir Park
Park
3 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land
3,798 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 paths0.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
- The Dragon (bike route)23.5 mi
Courts & fields
- Beach volleyball2
- Baseball1
- Basketball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Big Prairie and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Big Prairie'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.