Outdoors · Boston

Boston, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 2.4% of Boston is conserved land, roughly 558 acres. There are about 10 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Saranac Village Nature Park (0.8 mi).

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

At a glance

Boston outdoors

Conserved land
2.4%
558 of 22,884 acres
Trails
10 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
6
92 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.7 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.7 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

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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

Saranac Village Nature Park

Managed by Village of Saranac
75 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Scheid Park

Managed by Village of Saranac
16 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Grand River State Game Area

Managed by Michigan DNR - Wildlife Division
106 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Saranac Riverwalk Park

Managed by Village of Saranac
6 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 6 parks & preserves
Who protects the land

558 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other state land
444 ac
Private owners
101 ac
Town or city
13 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 7 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 lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.7 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
  • Fred Meijer Grand River Valley Rail Trail (bike route)6.2 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball7
  • Football2
  • Basketball1
  • Skate park1

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

Next door

Boston and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Boston2.4%10.4 mi6
Lowell5.3%3.9 mi3
Keene4.6%2.1 mi2
Campbell0.4%0.1 mi1
Berlin16.6%34.2 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Boston'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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