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Lake, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 5.3% of Lake is conserved land, roughly 3,038 acres. There are about 7.1 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Albert E Sleeper State Park (4.8 mi) and Rush Lake State Game Area (1 mi).

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

At a glance

Lake outdoors

Conserved land
5.3%
3,038 of 57,244 acres
Trails
7.1 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 6 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
named on the map
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

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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Albert E Sleeper State Park

Park
750 acres4.8 mi of trail
Deer Run TrailOld Dunes Nature TrailCandlestick TrailHuron Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Rush Lake State Game Area

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
2,275 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Launch
3

Oak Beach County Park

Managed by Huron County
9 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
4

Thompson County Park

Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

3,038 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State fish & wildlife
2,150 ac
State natural resources
723 ac
State parks
66 ac
County
50 ac
Private owners
49 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Nearby

Lake and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Lake5.3%7.1 mi5
Caseville0.5%12.9 mi4
Hume4.6%14.9 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Lake'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 31.7-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.

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