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Sharonville State Game Area
Nature preserve
2,374 acres4.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Norvell
Norvell, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 13% of Norvell is conserved land, roughly 2,665 acres. There are about 9.5 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Sharonville State Game Area (4.9 mi), Watkins Lake State Park (3 mi), and Lefglen Nature Sanctuary (0.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Norvell, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Norvell outdoors
Conserved land
13%
2,665 of 20,474 acres
Trails
9.5 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
6
951 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.2 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.2 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
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.
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Watkins Lake State Park
Managed by Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission
701 acres3 mi of trail
Yellow Trail
Dog rules not recorded
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Lefglen Nature Sanctuary
Managed by Michigan Nature Association
46 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
4
W. J. Hayes State Park
Park
27 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
Who protects the land
2,665 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 22 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 paths0.2 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Norvell and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norvell | 13% | 9.5 mi | 6 |
| Columbia | 2.3% | 2.4 mi | 3 |
| Napoleon | 6% | 1.4 mi | 2 |
| Manchester | 3.4% | 11.7 mi | 10 |
| Sharon | 7.7% | 17.0 mi | 10 |
| Cambridge | 5.1% | 2.0 mi | 8 |
| Grass Lake | 10.6% | 23.9 mi | 5 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Norvell'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.