Outdoors · Blair
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About 5% of Blair is conserved land, roughly 1,137 acres. There are about 39 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Pere Marquette State Forest - Traverse City Unit (21.3 mi), Grand Traverse Natural Education Reserve (3 mi), and Optimist Youth Foundation Cabin Property (1.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Blair, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
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Conserved land
5%
1,137 of 22,865 acres
Trails
39 mi
1.1 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
11
125 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.
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Conserved land, trails & bike routes
🏖️ Unnamed beach 🏖️ Unnamed beach 🛝 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Playground 🛝 Unnamed playground in Blair Township Recreation Area 🛝 Unnamed playground in Blair Township Recreation Area 🛝 Unnamed playground 🛝 Unnamed playground 🛝 Unnamed playground 🛝 Unnamed playground 🛝 Unnamed playground 🛝 Unnamed playground 🛝 Unnamed playground 🛝 Unnamed playground 🛝 Unnamed playground 🐕 Unnamed dog park 🐕 Unnamed dog park 🛶 Kayak/Canoe Launch 🛶 Unnamed boat launch 🛶 Unnamed boat launch in Grand Traverse Natural Education Reserve 🔭 Unnamed scenic view in Grand Traverse Natural Education Reserve 🔭 Unnamed scenic view in Grand Traverse Natural Education Reserve 🔭 Unnamed scenic view in Grand Traverse Natural Education Reserve 🔭 Unnamed scenic view in Grand Traverse Natural Education Reserve ⛰️ Pierce Hill ⛰️ Unnamed peak 1 2 3 4
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Places to walk
Parks & preserves with trails
Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1 Pere Marquette State Forest - Traverse City Unit Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
3,896 acres21.3 mi of trail
Boardman/Ottaway River Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
2 Grand Traverse Natural Education Reserve Managed by Grand Traverse County
118 acres3 mi of trail
Boardman/Ottaway River Trail Keystone Rapids Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
3 Optimist Youth Foundation Cabin Property Managed by Traverse City Optimist Club
42 acres1.5 mi of trail
Cattail Loop Cedar Loop Maple Loop Overlook Loop Snowshoe Spur
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Show on map
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4 Blair Township Recreation Area Park
28 acres0.3 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
All 11 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 11 parks & preserves
🌲 Pere Marquette State Forest - Traverse City Unit 3,896 acres · 21.3 mi of trail · Michigan Department of Natural Resources
🌲 Grand Traverse Natural Education Reserve 118 acres · 3 mi of trail · Grand Traverse County
🌲 Optimist Youth Foundation Cabin Property 42 acres · 1.5 mi of trail · Traverse City Optimist Club
🌳 Blair Township Recreation Area 28 acres · 0.3 mi of trail
🌳 South Creek Common Area 65 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
🌳 Silver Meadows Park 10 acres
🌳 Beitner Park 4 acres · Grand Traverse County Road Commission
🌳 Stafford Meadows Common Area 4 acres
Things to do
Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more
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Playgrounds in Blair Show all on map
Showing 1–10 of 12 playgrounds
🛝 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Playground
🛝 Unnamed playground in Blair Township Recreation Area
🛝 Unnamed playground in Blair Township Recreation Area
Trails
Named trails
Open to bikes 1.0 mi Horses 2.7 mi Unpaved 25.0 mi
Boardman/Ottaway River Trail 1.1 mi Cedar Loop 0.4 mi Cattail Loop 0.4 mi Keystone Rapids Trail 0.4 mi Maple Loop 0.4 mi Overlook Loop 0.3 mi Snowshoe Spur 0.1 mi Water
Lakes & rivers
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Who protects the land
1,137 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
787 ac Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 790 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
Painted or protected bike lanes 0.0 mi Off-road bike paths 0.0 mi Shoulders & shared lanes 0.0 mi
Courts & fields Baseball 9 Basketball 5 Equestrian 4 Beach volleyball 3 Soccer 2 Tennis 1 Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Public lands
The biggest protected places in Blair
From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
Unknown Easement 787 ac Local Conservation Area 329 ac Local Park 17 ac Conservation Easement 2 ac
Place Managed by Acres Public access
Nature Reserve Local Conservation Area Town or city 205 Open Natural Education Reserve Local Conservation Area County 125 Open Blair Park Local Park Town or city 13 Open Beitner Park Local Park County 4 Open
History
Historic places to visit
🪦 Maple Grove Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 Monroe Center Cemetery Cemetery
Nearby
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Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Blair'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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