Outdoors · Oshtemo

Oshtemo, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 2% of Oshtemo is conserved land, roughly 461 acres. There are about 21 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Oshtemo Township Park (4 mi), Lillian Anderson Arboretum (3.6 mi), and Wolf Tree Nature Trails (1.8 mi).

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

At a glance

Oshtemo outdoors

Conserved land
2%
461 of 22,905 acres
Trails
21 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi · 6 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
7
19 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
9.5 mi
2.2 mi lanes · 5.1 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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Oshtemo Township Park

Park
72 acres4 mi of trail
Loop TrailOld Field Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
2

Lillian Anderson Arboretum

Managed by Kalamazoo College
146 acres3.6 mi of trail
Powerline TrailMarsh Woods TrailMagnificent Pines TrailGathje Hill TrailBobayundel Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
3

Wolf Tree Nature Trails

Managed by Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy
64 acres1.8 mi of trail
Kettle & Kame TrailOak Opening TrailColumbo Kettle LoopBlack Oak Shortcut
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
4

Drake's Farmstead Park

Park
29 acres1.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5

Flesher Field

Park
25 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

461 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Private owners
231 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
87 ac
State natural resources
81 ac
Other state land
62 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 3 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 7 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes2.2 mi
  • Off-road bike paths5.1 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes2.2 mi

Courts & fields

  • Basketball11
  • Tennis5
  • Volleyball3
  • Pickleball2
  • Soccer1
  • Baseball1
  • Football1

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

Nearby

Oshtemo and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Oshtemo2%21.3 mi7
Kalamazoo8.6%21.6 mi42
Texas0.1%28.0 mi6
Alamo3%0.7 mi5
Kalamazoo1.2%0.2 mi8
Almena2.1%7.1 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Oshtemo'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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