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Lake Superior State Forest - Sault Ste. Marie Unit
Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
8,490 acres16.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Clark
Clark, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 7.2% of Clark is conserved land, roughly 4,649 acres. There are about 59 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Lake Superior State Forest - Sault Ste. Marie Unit (16.2 mi), William B. Derby Nature Preserve (1.6 mi), and Oliver and Edna Birge Nature Preserve (1.4 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Clark, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Clark outdoors
Conserved land
7.2%
4,649 of 64,703 acres
Trails
59 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi · 11 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
17
2,840 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
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.
2
William B. Derby Nature Preserve
Managed by Little Traverse Conservancy
189 acres1.6 mi of trail
William B. Derby Nature Preserve
Dogs on leashMapped in OpenStreetMap
DirectionsTo the trailhead
3
Oliver and Edna Birge Nature Preserve
Nature preserve
487 acres1.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Mertaugh Family Nature Preserve
Nature preserve
241 acres1.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
5
Aldo Leopold Nature Preserve
Managed by Little Traverse Conservancy
1,735 acres1.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
6
John Arthur Woollam Preserve
Managed by The Nature Conservancy
194 acres0.8 mi of trail
Red Trail / Bush Bay Trail / Narnia TrailYellow Trail - Woollam Shortcut Trail
Dogs usually not allowedTypical for Nature Conservancy preserves. Check posted rules
All 17 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 17 parks & preserves
Lake Superior State Forest - Sault Ste. Marie Unit8,490 acres · 16.2 mi of trail · Michigan Department of Natural Resources
William B. Derby Nature Preserve189 acres · 1.6 mi of trail · Little Traverse Conservancy
Oliver and Edna Birge Nature Preserve487 acres · 1.4 mi of trail
Mertaugh Family Nature Preserve241 acres · 1.4 mi of trail
Aldo Leopold Nature Preserve1,735 acres · 1.1 mi of trail · Little Traverse Conservancy
John Arthur Woollam Preserve194 acres · 0.8 mi of trail · The Nature Conservancy
Leopold Landing.58 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · Clark Township
Hessel Beach1 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · Clark Township
Carl A. Gerstacker Nature Preserve350 acres · The Nature Conservancy
Ivan Nordquist Boot Island Nature Preserve80 acres
Who protects the land
4,649 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 577 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 3 of 36 parcels. 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 paths0.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis4
- Basketball3
- Baseball3
- Beach volleyball2
- Football1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Clark and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Clark'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 44.5-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.