Outdoors · Paradise
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About 4.5% of Paradise is conserved land, roughly 1,528 acres. There are about 69 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Pere Marquette State Forest - Traverse City Unit (42.8 mi), East Creek Reserve (7.4 mi), and Mayfield Pond Park (1.1 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Paradise, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
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Conserved land
4.5%
1,528 of 33,696 acres
Trails
69 mi
1.3 mi per sq mi · 10 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
9
304 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.5 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.5 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
🛝 Unnamed playground in Civic Center South 🛝 Unnamed playground 🛝 Unnamed playground in Brownson Memorial Park 1 2 3 4
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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 Pere Marquette State Forest - Traverse City Unit Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
5,634 acres42.8 mi of trail
Shore to Shore Horse Trail Michigan Cross Country Cycle Trail Mayfield Trail Boardman/Ottaway River Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
2 East Creek Reserve Managed by Grand Traverse Conservation District
544 acres7.4 mi of trail
Boardman/Ottaway River Trail Shore to Shore Horse Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
3 Mayfield Pond Park Managed by Paradise Township
61 acres1.1 mi of trail
Boardman/Ottaway River Trail Mayfield Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
4 Halladay-Blackhurst-Chowning Nature Preserve Managed by Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy
40 acres0.7 mi of trail
Loop 1 Loop 2
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
All 9 parks & preserves
🌲 Pere Marquette State Forest - Traverse City Unit 5,634 acres · 42.8 mi of trail · Michigan Department of Natural Resources
🌲 East Creek Reserve 544 acres · 7.4 mi of trail · Grand Traverse Conservation District
🌳 Mayfield Pond Park 61 acres · 1.1 mi of trail · Paradise Township
🌲 Halladay-Blackhurst-Chowning Nature Preserve 40 acres · 0.7 mi of trail · Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy
🌳 Pioneer Park 8 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · Village of Kingsley
🌳 Civic Center South 59 acres · Village of Kingsley
🌲 Pere Marquette State Forest - Cadillac Unit 1 acres · Michigan Department of Natural Resources
🌳 Brownson Memorial Park 1 acres · Village of Kingsley
🌳 Kingsley Veterans Memorial Park 1 acres
Things to do
Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more
Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Playgrounds in Paradise Show all on map
🛝 Unnamed playground in Civic Center South
🛝 Unnamed playground in Brownson Memorial Park
Trails
Named trails
Open to bikes 2.5 mi Horses 4.2 mi Unpaved 53.2 mi
Shore to Shore Horse Trail 2.6 mi Boardman/Ottaway River Trail 2.0 mi Mayfield Trail 2.0 mi Michigan Cross Country Cycle Trail 1.1 mi Loop 1 0.4 mi Loop 2 0.3 mi Water
Lakes & rivers
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Who protects the land
1,528 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
1,140 ac State natural resources
379 ac Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,100 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 lanes 0.0 mi Off-road bike paths 0.5 mi Shoulders & shared lanes 0.0 mi
Courts & fields Basketball 5 Baseball 5 Soccer 2 Tennis 2 Football 2 Softball 1 Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Public lands
The biggest protected places in Paradise
From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
Unknown Easement 704 ac Other Easement 396 ac State Conservation Area 379 ac Private Conservation 40 ac Local Park 10 ac
Place Managed by Acres Public access
MNRTF Parcel State Conservation Area State natural resources 379 Restricted Halladay-Blackhurst-Chowning Private Conservation Land trusts & nonprofits 40 Open Pioneer Park Local Park Town or city 8 Open Brownson Park Local Park Town or city 2 Open
History
Historic places to visit
Showing 1–10 of 11 places
🏛️ Kingsley Veterans Memorial Plaque
🪦 Blackman Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 Evergreen Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 Seegmiller Cemetery Cemetery
🪦 Sparling Cemetery Cemetery
Nearby
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Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
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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 23.5-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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