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Copper Country State Forest- Baraga Unit
Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
10,548 acres36.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Portage
Portage, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 17% of Portage is conserved land, roughly 12,719 acres. There are about 168 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Copper Country State Forest- Baraga Unit (36.1 mi) and Pilgrim River Community Forest (2.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Portage, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Portage outdoors
Conserved land
17%
12,719 of 74,074 acres
Trails
168 mi
1.5 mi per sq mi · 48 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
8
3,968 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
11.2 mi
0.4 mi lanes · 10.8 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.
2
Pilgrim River Community Forest
Managed by Keweenaw Land Trust
272 acres2.6 mi of trail
Pilgrim River Community Forest Trail
Dogs on leashMapped in OpenStreetMap
3
River Bend Nature Sanctuary
Managed by Michigan Nature Association
39 acres
No dogsMapped in OpenStreetMap
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
4
Sarah Catherine Rockafellow Memorial Nature Sanctuary
Managed by Michigan Nature Association
34 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
Who protects the land
12,719 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,333 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 lanes0.4 mi
- Off-road bike paths10.8 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
- Bill Nicholls Trail (bike route)0.7 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball2
- Tennis2
- Soccer2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Portage and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Portage'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 49.8-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.