Outdoors · Brooklyn

Brooklyn, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 4.2% of Brooklyn is conserved land, roughly 27 acres. Brooklyn has 1 named park and preserve on the map.

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

At a glance

Brooklyn outdoors

Conserved land
4.2%
27 of 656 acres
Trails
0.0 mi
0 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
1
23 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

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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

Swain Memorial Park

Park
4 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Playgrounds in Brooklyn
Unnamed playground
Directions
Who protects the land

27 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Private owners
21 ac
Town or city
6 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

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

Courts & fields

  • Baseball1

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

Public lands

The biggest protected places in Brooklyn

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
Private Park 21 acLocal Park 6 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Heart of the Lakes Golf CoursePrivate ParkPrivate owners21Restricted
Unknown ParkLocal ParkTown or city6Open
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Brooklyn'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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