1
Chipman Preserve
Managed by Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy
224 acres5 mi of trail
Woodland TrailPrairie TrailSavanna TrailNursery Trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Comstock
Comstock, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 3.5% of Comstock is conserved land, roughly 781 acres. There are about 9.4 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Chipman Preserve (5 mi) and Fred McLinden Nature Trails (3.2 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Comstock, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Comstock outdoors
Conserved land
3.5%
781 of 22,433 acres
Trails
9.4 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
15
51 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
7.1 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 7.1 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
Fred McLinden Nature Trails
Managed by City of Kalamazoo
370 acres3.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
Merrill Park
Park
6 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
River Oaks County Park
Park
266 acres
Dog rules not recorded
All 15 parks & preserves
- Neal Street Park2 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- KEKA Preserve33 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Marc's Marsh10 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- River Villa Township Park57 ac
- Myers Nature Preserve39 ac
- Robert Morris Park32 ac · Directions
- Cooper Park6 ac
- Morrow Lake Public Access3 ac
- North Wenke Park1 ac · Directions
- Shafter Park1 ac
- South Wenke Park1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
781 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 30 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 3 of 14 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 paths7.1 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Soccer18
- Baseball16
- Tennis11
- Basketball3
- Pickleball1
- Football1
- Volleyball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Comstock and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Comstock'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.