Outdoors · Danby

Danby, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 9.4% of Danby is conserved land, roughly 2,154 acres. There are about 15 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Portland State Game Area (9.2 mi).

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

At a glance

Danby outdoors

Conserved land
9.4%
2,154 of 22,880 acres
Trails
15 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 10 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
1
724 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.
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Portland State Game Area

Nature preserve
2,164 acres9.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

2,154 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State fish & wildlife
1,997 ac
Private owners
157 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
Nearby

Danby and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Danby9.4%15.1 mi1
Portland8.1%4.2 mi11
Portland0.8%0.6 mi2
Eagle1%13.5 mi3
Roxand0.3%1.2 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Danby'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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