Outdoors · Maple Forest

Maple Forest, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 2.9% of Maple Forest is conserved land, roughly 648 acres. There are about 78 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Au Sable State Forest - Grayling Unit (54 mi).

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

At a glance

Maple Forest outdoors

Conserved land
2.9%
648 of 22,623 acres
Trails
78 mi
2.2 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
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

12
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 - Grayling Unit

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
12,755 acres54 mi of trail
Green TrailWine Sap TrailHardwood TrailFreeway ConnectorScreamer
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Hartwick Pines State Park

Nature preserve
15 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

648 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other or Unknown Federal Land
548 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
97 ac
State parks
2 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 97 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 paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Nearby

Maple Forest and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Maple Forest2.9%77.8 mi2
Grayling20.8%502.5 mi6
Lovells23.2%220.4 mi2
Frederic13.6%229.9 mi4
Otsego Lake0.8%54.2 mi7
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Maple Forest'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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