Outdoors · Green

Green, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 3.1% of Green is conserved land, roughly 1,569 acres. There are about 19 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Mackinac State Forest - Atlanta Unit (1.1 mi) and Turtle Lake Club (0.7 mi).

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

At a glance

Green outdoors

Conserved land
3.1%
1,569 of 50,883 acres
Trails
19 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 1 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
named on the map
Bike routes
1.4 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 1.4 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

Mackinac State Forest - Atlanta Unit

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
1,364 acres1.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Turtle Lake Club

Nature preserve
890 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Fletcher Pond Public Access

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
6 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Manning Hill Roadside Park

Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Campgrounds in Green
Jack's Landing Camprground
Directions
Killion's Landing CampgroundFee · Killion's Landing
Directions
Paradise Lodge Campground
Directions
Who protects the land

1,569 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
1,392 ac
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
118 ac
Private owners
53 ac
Town or city
5 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 118 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 paths1.4 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball1
  • Basketball1

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

Public lands

The biggest protected places in Green

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
State Conservation Area 1,392 acConservation Easement 118 acPrivate Park 53 acLocal Park 5 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Atlanta State Forest AreaState Conservation AreaState natural resources1,376Open
Thunder Bay Golf ResortPrivate ParkPrivate owners53Open
MNRTF Parcel 13State Conservation AreaState natural resources16Restricted
King FieldLocal ParkTown or city5Open
History

Historic places to visit

Greely CemeteryCemetery
Spratt CemeteryCemetery
Nearby

Green and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Green3.1%19.0 mi4
Wilson15.6%28.4 mi3
Ossineke8.8%115.9 mi4
Wellington23.4%21.0 mi1
Long Rapids16.3%11.9 mi2
Rust3.9%126.1 mi16
Hillman44.5%132.5 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Green'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 29.8-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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