Outdoors · Orleans

Orleans, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 6.3% of Orleans is conserved land, roughly 1,463 acres. There are about 1.8 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Orleans outdoors

Conserved land
6.3%
1,463 of 23,059 acres
Trails
1.8 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
541 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

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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

Flat River State Game Area

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
1,535 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Long Lake Public Access

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

1,463 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State fish & wildlife
1,463 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
Next door

Orleans and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Orleans6.3%1.8 mi2
Otisco4.9%2.4 mi1
Easton1.1%2.0 mi2
Fairplain21.7%10.0 mi2
Ronald0.8%0.6 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Orleans'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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