Outdoors · Flint

Flint, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 3.8% of Flint is conserved land, roughly 559 acres. There are about 3.6 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Flint outdoors

Conserved land
3.8%
559 of 14,826 acres
Trails
3.6 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
18 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
5.5 mi
0.3 mi lanes · 5.3 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

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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

AYSO Park

Park
28 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Swartz Creek Valley Park

Managed by City of Flint
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

559 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Private owners
364 ac
Other state land
157 ac
Town or city
38 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 3 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 lanes0.3 mi
  • Off-road bike paths5.3 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis18
  • Basketball2
  • Baseball2
  • Football1

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

Nearby

Flint and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Flint3.8%3.6 mi2
Flint8.6%14.3 mi74
Swartz Creek3.3%0.0 mi5
Clayton1%0.2 mi1
Mount Morris2.6%1.1 mi3
Mundy2.4%0.7 mi2
Burton8.3%11.9 mi5
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Flint'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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