1
Asylum Lake Preserve
Park
294 acres6.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 8.6% of Kalamazoo is conserved land, roughly 1,370 acres. There are about 22 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Asylum Lake Preserve (6.9 mi), Kleinstuck Preserve (1.5 mi), and Bow in the Clouds Preserve (1.3 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Kalamazoo, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Kalamazoo outdoors
Conserved land
8.6%
1,370 of 15,953 acres
Trails
22 mi
0.9 mi per sq mi · 14 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
42
19 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
43.9 mi
27.1 mi lanes · 11.2 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
Kleinstuck Preserve
Managed by Stewards of Kleinstuck
49 acres1.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
Bow in the Clouds Preserve
Managed by Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy
42 acres1.3 mi of trail
Main Trail
Dog rules not recorded
4
Spring Valley Park
Park
153 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Milham Park
Park
120 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Upjohn Park
Park
18 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
7
Little Sister Preserve
Managed by Stewards of Kleinstuck
11 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
8
Arcadia Playground
Park
3 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 42 parks & preserves
- Mayors' Riverfront Park37 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Hayes Park11 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Crane Park7 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- La Crone Park6 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Woods Lake Park5 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- VerSluis & Dickinson Park56 ac
- Knollwood Park22 ac · Directions
- Emerald Drive Park20 ac
- Verburg Park16 ac · Directions
- West Douglas Neighborhood Park16 ac · Directions
- Fairmount Dog Park10 ac · Directions
- Frays Park10 ac
- Sherwood Park5 ac
- Rockwell Park4 ac
- Bronson Park3 ac · Directions
- Southside Park3 ac
- Westnedge Park2 ac · Directions
- Glen Park South2 ac
- Jones Park2 ac
- Farrel Park2 ac · Directions
- Axtell Creek Park2 ac · Directions
- Reed Park1 ac · Directions
- Hillside Park1 ac
- Canyon Park1 ac
- Harrison Park1 ac · Directions
- Kensington (Lake) Park1 ac
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park1 ac · Directions
- Davis Street Park1 ac
- Glen Park North1 ac
- Henderson Tot Lot1 ac
- Henderson Park1 ac
- Dutton Street Park1 ac · Directions
- Rose Park Veterans Memorial1 ac · Directions
- Krom & Prouty Park1 ac
Who protects the land
1,370 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. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes27.1 mi
- Off-road bike paths11.2 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes5.6 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis77
- Baseball33
- Basketball26
- Soccer20
- Football6
- Volleyball6
- Pickleball3
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Kalamazoo and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Kalamazoo'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 23.7-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.