Outdoors · Mills

Mills, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 11% of Mills is conserved land, roughly 2,479 acres. There are about 8.2 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Au Sable State Forest - Gladwin Unit (3.1 mi) and Mills Township Park (1 mi).

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

At a glance

Mills outdoors

Conserved land
11%
2,479 of 22,872 acres
Trails
8.2 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
1,463 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

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 - Gladwin Unit

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
3,940 acres3.1 mi of trail
Midland to Mackinaw Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Mills Township Park

Managed by Mills Township
154 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

2,479 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State fish & wildlife
2,319 ac
Town or city
165 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

  • Baseball3
  • Soccer1

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

Nearby

Mills and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Mills10.8%8.2 mi2
Hope4.3%1.0 mi1
Bentley0.3%13.5 mi3
Larkin1.2%18.8 mi3
Garfield3%0.6 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Mills'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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