1
Wau Ke Na Preserve - South Tract
Managed by Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy
232 acres3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Ganges
Ganges, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 7.6% of Ganges is conserved land, roughly 1,574 acres. There are about 14 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Wau Ke Na Preserve - South Tract (3 mi) and Wau-Ke-Na Preserve North Tract (1 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Ganges, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Ganges outdoors
Conserved land
7.6%
1,574 of 20,791 acres
Trails
14 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
7
606 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
Wau-Ke-Na Preserve North Tract
Managed by Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy
66 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
West Side County Park
Park
12 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Allegan State Game Area
Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
1,178 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land
1,574 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 10 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 4 parcels. 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
Courts & fields
- Tennis1
- Beach volleyball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Ganges and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Ganges'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.