Outdoors · Minden

Minden, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 18% of Minden is conserved land, roughly 4,020 acres. There are about 23 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Minden City State Game Area (0.8 mi).

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

At a glance

Minden outdoors

Conserved land
18%
4,020 of 22,974 acres
Trails
23 mi
0.6 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

Minden City State Game Area

Nature preserve
3,934 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Francis A. Lautner Memorial Park

Managed by Village of Minden City
9 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

4,020 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State fish & wildlife
3,238 ac
Other state land
694 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
310 ac
Private owners
83 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 700 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

  • Basketball3
  • Baseball1

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

Nearby

Minden and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Minden17.5%22.6 mi2
Delaware0.5%5.0 mi3
Wheatland14%7.8 mi1
Austin5.4%2.8 mi2
Paris5.5%2.0 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Minden'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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