1
Glacial Hills Pathway and Natural Area
Park
814 acres34.1 mi of trail
GH #81-#82 LongGH #80-#82GH #11-#12GH #71-#72 LongGH #12-#29
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Forest Home
Forest Home, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 5.4% of Forest Home is conserved land, roughly 1,147 acres. There are about 43 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Glacial Hills Pathway and Natural Area (34.1 mi) and Torch Lake Nature Preserve (2.3 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Forest Home, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Forest Home outdoors
Conserved land
5.4%
1,147 of 21,332 acres
Trails
43 mi
1.3 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
7
647 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
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
Torch Lake Nature Preserve
Managed by Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy
100 acres2.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
Grass River Natural Area
Nature preserve
163 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Loon Nursery
Managed by Forest Home Township
30 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
Who protects the land
1,147 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 790 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 lanes0.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
- Outer Loop (bike route)18.7 mi
- Groomed Snow Trail (bike route)8.8 mi
- Never Land (bike route)5.2 mi
- Rolling Hills (bike route)4.8 mi
- Deer Run (bike route)3.6 mi
- West Valley (bike route)3.1 mi
- Bear Den (bike route)2.9 mi
- Wall (bike route)2.3 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis7
- Soccer6
- Basketball3
- Football1
- Pickleball1
- Skate park1
- Beach volleyball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Forest Home and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Forest Home'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 21.7-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.