Outdoors · Mathias

Mathias, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 24% of Mathias is conserved land, roughly 11,190 acres. There are about 79 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Au Train Basin State Wildlife Area (10.2 mi) and Escanaba River State Forest - Gwinn Unit (South) (6.1 mi).

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

At a glance

Mathias outdoors

Conserved land
24%
11,190 of 45,796 acres
Trails
79 mi
1.1 mi per sq mi · 34 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.

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 Train Basin State Wildlife Area

Nature preserve
2,009 acres10.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Escanaba River State Forest - Gwinn Unit (South)

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
1,785 acres6.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Trenary Lions Club Park

Managed by Trenary Lions Club
3 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
4

Mathias Township Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

11,190 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Forest Service
9,328 ac
State fish & wildlife
1,582 ac
State natural resources
242 ac
Town or city
39 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

  • Baseball1

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

Nearby

Mathias and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Mathias24.4%78.6 mi4
Limestone5.4%39.3 mi4
Au Train52.3%270.2 mi3
Masonville63.1%278.1 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Mathias'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 27.3-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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