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About 28% of Mastodon is conserved land, roughly 23,779 acres. There are about 169 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Copper Country State Forest - Crystal Falls Unit (88.6 mi) and Wilderness Shores Recreation Area (9.8 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Mastodon, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
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Conserved land
28%
23,779 of 86,211 acres
Trails
169 mi
1.3 mi per sq mi · 89 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
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.
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Conserved land, trails & bike routes
🛶 Carney Dam Boat Launch 🛶 Glidden Lake State Forest Campground Boat Launch 🛶 Lake Mary Boat Launch 🛶 Stager Lake Boat Launch 🛶 Unnamed boat launch in Wilderness Shores Recreation Area 🛶 Unnamed boat launch in Wilderness Shores Recreation Area 🛶 Unnamed boat launch in Wilderness Shores Recreation Area 🛶 Unnamed boat launch in Copper Country State Forest - Crystal Falls Unit 🛶 Unnamed boat launch in Copper Country State Forest - Crystal Falls Unit 🏕️ Glidden Lake State Forest Campground 1 2 3 4
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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 Copper Country State Forest - Crystal Falls Unit Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
23,419 acres88.6 mi of trail
Lake Mary Plains Pathway North Western Snowmobile Trail Chicago and North Western RR A Hershey Snowmobile Trail Snowmobile Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
2 Wilderness Shores Recreation Area Nature preserve
10,551 acres9.8 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Show on map
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3 Stager Lake Park Managed by Mastodon Township
5 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Show on map
4 Joseph Casper Roadside Park Park
3 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
Things to do
Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more
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Boat launches in Mastodon Show all on map
🛶 Carney Dam Boat Launch In Copper Country State Forest - Crystal Falls Unit
🛶 Glidden Lake State Forest Campground Boat Launch In Copper Country State Forest - Crystal Falls Unit
🛶 Stager Lake Boat Launch In Stager Lake Park
🛶 Unnamed boat launch in Wilderness Shores Recreation Area
🛶 Unnamed boat launch in Wilderness Shores Recreation Area
🛶 Unnamed boat launch in Wilderness Shores Recreation Area
🛶 Unnamed boat launch in Copper Country State Forest - Crystal Falls Unit
🛶 Unnamed boat launch in Copper Country State Forest - Crystal Falls Unit
Trails
Named trails
Unpaved 10.4 mi
Lake Mary Plains Pathway 7.2 mi North Western Snowmobile Trail 3.8 mi Chicago and North Western RR 3.0 mi A Hershey Snowmobile Trail 1.7 mi Snowmobile Trail 1.2 mi Northwestern Snowmobile Trail 0.9 mi Water
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Who protects the land
23,779 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
23,306 ac Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
Painted or protected bike lanes 0.0 mi Off-road bike paths 0.0 mi Shoulders & shared lanes 0.0 mi State Line Trail (bike route) 10.2 mi Iron Range Trail (bike route) 6.4 mi
Courts & fields
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Public lands
The biggest protected places in Mastodon
From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
State Conservation Area 23,306 ac Local Resource Management Area 391 ac Private Recreation or Education 39 ac Private Park 39 ac National Forest 3 ac
Place Managed by Acres Public access
Crystal Falls State Forest Area State Conservation Area State natural resources 22,961 Open Local Forest Local Resource Management Area County 352 Open MNRTF Parcel State Conservation Area State natural resources 184 Restricted MNRTF Parcel 130 State Conservation Area State natural resources 160 Restricted Buck Stops Here Hunting Lodge Private Recreation or Education Private owners 39 Open Land Local Resource Management Area Town or city 39 Open Powder Horn Club Private Park Private owners 39 Open Nicolet National Forest National Forest U.S. Forest Service 3 Open Mastodon Township Park Local Park Town or city 1 Open
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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 44.3-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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