Outdoors · Lyon

Lyon, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 17% of Lyon is conserved land, roughly 3,921 acres. There are about 93 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Au Sable State Forest - Roscommon Unit (85.4 mi).

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

At a glance

Lyon outdoors

Conserved land
17%
3,921 of 23,225 acres
Trails
93 mi
2.6 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
5
3,037 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

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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

Au Sable State Forest - Roscommon Unit

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
14,652 acres85.4 mi of trail
West Higgins TrailWest Higgins RoutePinewood Drive West
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Au Sable State Forest - Grayling Unit

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
2 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
3

Lyon Township Park

Park
13 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Pere Marquette State Forest - Cadillac Unit

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
1 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

3,921 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
3,920 ac
Private owners
1 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

Courts & fields

  • Tennis1

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

Nearby

Lyon and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Lyon16.9%92.7 mi5
Gerrish3.5%23.8 mi2
Beaver Creek2.8%198.4 mi2
Lake21%9.6 mi4
Norwich58.6%127.8 mi2
Enterprise39%24.0 mi2
Markey7.3%15.5 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Lyon'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.

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