Outdoors · Columbia

Columbia, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 2.3% of Columbia is conserved land, roughly 589 acres. There are about 2.4 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Columbia outdoors

Conserved land
2.3%
589 of 25,164 acres
Trails
2.4 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
3
79 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

Columbia Nature Sanctuary

Managed by Michigan Nature Association
37 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
2

Swain Memorial Park

Park
5 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Vineyard Park

Managed by Jackson County
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

589 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Private owners
328 ac
Town or city
196 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
48 ac
Other state land
10 ac
County
6 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 10 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 paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis8
  • Baseball2
  • Soccer1

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

Nearby

Columbia and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Columbia2.3%2.4 mi3
Norvell13%9.5 mi6
Napoleon6%1.4 mi2
Liberty4.1%9.5 mi7
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Columbia'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 20.3-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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