Outdoors · Fairplain

Fairplain, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 22% of Fairplain is conserved land, roughly 4,960 acres. There are about 10 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Flat River State Game Area (9 mi).

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

At a glance

Fairplain outdoors

Conserved land
22%
4,960 of 22,866 acres
Trails
10 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 8 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
2,616 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

12
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

Flat River State Game Area

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
5,073 acres9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Greenville Roadside Park

Managed by Michigan Department of Transportation
9 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

4,960 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State fish & wildlife
4,819 ac
Private owners
141 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

Fairplain and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Fairplain21.7%10.0 mi2
Sidney8.1%11.9 mi4
Eureka22%12.0 mi2
Orleans6.3%1.8 mi2
Bushnell1.4%0.9 mi2
Montcalm3.7%1.9 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Fairplain'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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