Outdoors · Mentor

Mentor, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 91% of Mentor is conserved land, roughly 82,122 acres. There are about 267 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Huron National Forest (254.3 mi).

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

At a glance

Mentor outdoors

Conserved land
91%
82,122 of 90,690 acres
Trails
267 mi
1.9 mi per sq mi · 255 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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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

Huron National Forest

Managed by United States Forest Service
81,937 acres254.3 mi of trail
Shore to Shore TrailMack Lake Loop TrailORV TrailWolf Creek Hiking TrailSix Mile Grade
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead Website
2

M33 Roadside Park

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
9 acres0.3 mi of trail
Pussytoe Hiking TrailWolf Creek Hiking Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead Website
3

Blaze Farhat Wildlife Preserve

Park
356 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Joseph Pillars Park

Managed by Big Creek Township
5 acres0.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead Website
Who protects the land

82,122 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Forest Service
81,972 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
154 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 189 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

Courts & fields

  • Beach volleyball2
  • Basketball2
  • Tennis1
  • Volleyball1

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

Nearby

Mentor and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Mentor90.6%266.9 mi5
Comins20.5%86.9 mi6
Mitchell31.9%224.1 mi2
Big Creek68.8%280.7 mi6
Rose27.1%65.8 mi4
Goodar50.4%44.4 mi3
Curtis45.8%93.8 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Mentor'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 38.6-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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