1
Mott Park Recreation Area
Managed by City of Flint
76 acres2.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Flint
Flint, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 8.6% of Flint is conserved land, roughly 1,857 acres. There are about 14 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Mott Park Recreation Area (2.6 mi), Pierce Park (1.6 mi), and Windiate Park (0.9 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Flint, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Flint outdoors
Conserved land
8.6%
1,857 of 21,697 acres
Trails
14 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 9 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
74
23 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
28.2 mi
9.1 mi lanes · 17.2 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
Pierce Park
Managed by City of Flint
66 acres1.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Windiate Park
Managed by City of Flint
11 acres0.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Kearsley Park
Park
56 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Happy Hollow Nature Area
Park
83 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Ophelia Bonner Park
Park
20 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 74 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 74 parks & preserves
Mott Park Recreation Area76 acres · 2.6 mi of trail · City of Flint
Pierce Park66 acres · 1.6 mi of trail · City of Flint
Windiate Park11 acres · 0.9 mi of trail · City of Flint
Kearsley Park56 acres · 0.6 mi of trail
Happy Hollow Nature Area83 acres · 0.3 mi of trail
Ophelia Bonner Park20 acres · 0.3 mi of trail
Riverside Park199 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Lincoln Park79 acres · 0.2 mi of trail · City of Flint
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park47 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Flint Lake Park44 acres · 0.2 mi of trail · City of Flint
Who protects the land
1,857 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2 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 lanes9.1 mi
- Off-road bike paths17.2 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes1.9 mi
Courts & fields
- Basketball58
- Tennis57
- Baseball51
- Football8
- Soccer6
- Beach volleyball6
- Tracks4
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.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flint | 8.6% | 14.3 mi | 74 |
| Flint | 3.8% | 3.6 mi | 2 |
| Genesee | 18.6% | 7.3 mi | 5 |
| Burton | 8.3% | 11.9 mi | 5 |
| Mount Morris | 2.6% | 1.1 mi | 3 |
| Mundy | 2.4% | 0.7 mi | 2 |
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 27-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.