Outdoors · Montcalm

Montcalm, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 3.7% of Montcalm is conserved land, roughly 858 acres. There are about 1.9 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Montcalm outdoors

Conserved land
3.7%
858 of 23,162 acres
Trails
1.9 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
4
249 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
1.5 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 1.5 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

Carl Paepke Flat River Nature Park

Managed by Montcalm County
46 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
2

Montcalm Township Park

Managed by Montcalm Township
40 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
3

McCarthy Park

Managed by Montcalm County
29 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
4

Langston State Game Area

Managed by Michigan DNR - Wildlife Division
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

858 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Private owners
749 ac
County
80 ac
Town or city
31 ac
State fish & wildlife
2 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths1.5 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Basketball2
  • Baseball1
  • Beach volleyball1
  • Tennis1

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

Nearby

Montcalm and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Montcalm3.7%1.9 mi4
Sidney8.1%11.9 mi4
Eureka22%12.0 mi2
Spencer2.8%6.8 mi6
Greenville7.6%5.3 mi15
Pine14.1%10.1 mi3
Douglass0.7%3.6 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Montcalm'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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