Outdoors · Chippewa

Chippewa, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 83% of Chippewa is conserved land, roughly 50,282 acres. There are about 162 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Lake Superior State Forest - Newberry Unit (1.6 mi).

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

At a glance

Chippewa outdoors

Conserved land
83%
50,282 of 60,658 acres
Trails
162 mi
1.7 mi per sq mi · 136 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
1
named on the map
Bike routes
31.1 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 12.3 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

Lake Superior State Forest - Newberry Unit

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
511 acres1.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

50,282 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Forest Service
50,258 ac
State natural resources
20 ac
Other state land
4 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 4 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 paths12.3 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes18.8 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball1

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

Nearby

Chippewa and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Chippewa82.9%161.9 mi1
Kinross47.3%102.3 mi4
Hulbert52.3%64.3 mi2
Superior58.8%118.5 mi2
Whitefish54.4%457.9 mi13
Trout Lake79.8%142.4 mi11
Bay Mills49.6%93.6 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Chippewa'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 35.2-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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