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River Rouge Park
Managed by City of Detroit
903 acres13 mi of trail
Rouge Park MTB TrailPrairie PathwayStone Bridge Nature Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead
Outdoors · Detroit
Detroit, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 6.2% of Detroit is conserved land, roughly 5,611 acres. There are about 107 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in River Rouge Park (13 mi), Belle Isle (11.9 mi), and Palmer Park (4.2 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Detroit, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Detroit outdoors
Conserved land
6.2%
5,611 of 90,943 acres
Trails
107 mi
0.8 mi per sq mi · 92 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
296
9 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
187.3 mi
88.1 mi lanes · 65.3 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
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
Belle Isle
Nature preserve
895 acres11.9 mi of trail
Nashua TrailDriker TrailTrout Lily TrailWildwood TrailSedge Meadow Trail
Dogs on leashMapped in OpenStreetMap
3
Palmer Park
Park
296 acres4.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Eliza Howell Park
Managed by City of Detroit
248 acres3.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Farwell Field
Park
86 acres2.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Centennial Park
Park
22 acres2.3 mi of trail
Nature Walk
Dog rules not recorded
7
Chandler Park
Park
201 acres2.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
8
Riverside Park
Managed by City of Detroit
30 acres2 mi of trail
Detroit Riverwalk
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 296 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 296 parks & preserves
River Rouge Park903 acres · 13 mi of trail · City of Detroit
Belle Isle895 acres · 11.9 mi of trail
Palmer Park296 acres · 4.2 mi of trail
Eliza Howell Park248 acres · 3.5 mi of trail · City of Detroit
Farwell Field86 acres · 2.3 mi of trail
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Centennial Park22 acres · 2.3 mi of trail
Chandler Park201 acres · 2.1 mi of trail
Riverside Park30 acres · 2 mi of trail · City of Detroit
Jayne Playfield48 acres · 1.9 mi of trail
Clark Park30 acres · 1.8 mi of trail
Who protects the land
5,611 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes88.1 mi
- Off-road bike paths65.3 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes33.9 mi
- Joe Louis Greenway (bike route)2.1 mi
- Detroit Slow Streets Network (bike route)0.6 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis199
- Basketball168
- Baseball123
- Soccer59
- Football27
- Pickleball18
- Beach volleyball9
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Detroit and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit | 6.2% | 107.2 mi | 296 |
| Dearborn | 10.8% | 47.8 mi | 43 |
| River Rouge | 1.2% | 0.6 mi | 3 |
| Grosse Pointe Park | 1.4% | 0.1 mi | 2 |
| Dearborn Heights | 11.8% | 7.1 mi | 20 |
| Melvindale | 2.2% | 0.8 mi | 6 |
| Harper Woods | 1.6% | 1.1 mi | 4 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Detroit'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 51.8-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.