1
Brighton State Recreation Area
Park
4,076 acres58.1 mi of trail
Torn Shirt TrailMurray Lake TrailChambers TrailLost LoopAppleton Lake Loop
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Hamburg
Hamburg, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 26% of Hamburg is conserved land, roughly 6,026 acres. There are about 90 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Brighton State Recreation Area (58.1 mi), Manly Bennett Memorial Park (1.9 mi), and Chilson Pond Day Use Area (0.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Hamburg, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Hamburg outdoors
Conserved land
26%
6,026 of 22,915 acres
Trails
90 mi
2.5 mi per sq mi · 72 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
6
284 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
7.9 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 7.9 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
Manly Bennett Memorial Park
Park
272 acres1.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Chilson Pond Day Use Area
Park
35 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Huron Meadows Metropark
Park
5 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land
6,026 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 90 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 paths7.9 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
- Murray Lake (bike route)6.9 mi
- Torn Shirt (bike route)6.6 mi
- Lost Loop (bike route)2.1 mi
- Appleton Lake Loop (bike route)2 mi
- Appleton North (bike route)1.6 mi
- Appleton Extension (bike route)0.5 mi
- Other Trails (bike route)0.4 mi
- Found Loop (bike route)0.4 mi
Courts & fields
- Soccer16
- Baseball8
- Tennis8
- Volleyball5
- Basketball4
- Beach volleyball3
- Football2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Hamburg and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Hamburg'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.