Outdoors · Buckeye

Buckeye, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 5.7% of Buckeye is conserved land, roughly 1,242 acres. There are about 15 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in South Park (0.7 mi), Gladwin School Nature Area (0.5 mi), and Gladwin State Game Area (0.5 mi).

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

At a glance

Buckeye outdoors

Conserved land
5.7%
1,242 of 21,963 acres
Trails
15 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 7 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
893 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

South Park

Managed by City of Gladwin
124 acres0.7 mi of trail
Riverwalk Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Gladwin School Nature Area

Managed by Gladwin Community Schools
191 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Gladwin State Game Area

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
78 acres0.5 mi of trail
Trail of Two Cities
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Buckeye Trailhead
Who protects the land

1,242 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Private owners
867 ac
State fish & wildlife
210 ac
Town or city
155 ac
County
11 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
  • Trail of Two Cities (bike route)1.2 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball4

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

Nearby

Buckeye and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Buckeye5.7%15.4 mi3
Grout3.5%4.6 mi2
Hay1.5%5.3 mi2
Tobacco5.1%6.5 mi3
Gladwin4.8%0.6 mi4
Gladwin0%3.3 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Buckeye'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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