1
Pinckney State Recreation Area
Park
2,362 acres25.9 mi of trail
Potawatomi TrailYurt TrailPotawatomi & Crooked Lake TrailPotawatomi Trail Shortcut
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Putnam
Putnam, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 28% of Putnam is conserved land, roughly 6,420 acres. There are about 36 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Pinckney State Recreation Area (25.9 mi) and Gregory State Game Area (2.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Putnam, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Putnam outdoors
Conserved land
28%
6,420 of 22,636 acres
Trails
36 mi
1 mi per sq mi · 31 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
6
819 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
6.2 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 6.2 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.
2
Gregory State Game Area
Nature preserve
1,103 acres2.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Church Park
Managed by Church
6 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Brighton State Recreation Area
Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land
6,420 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 52 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 paths6.2 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
- Potawatomi Trail (Bike) (bike route)7 mi
- Potawatomi Winter Trail (Bike) (bike route)5.8 mi
- Yurt Trail (Bike) (bike route)0.3 mi
- Crooked Lake Trail (Bike) (bike route)0.3 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis10
- Baseball5
- Football2
- Basketball1
- Soccer1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Putnam and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Putnam'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.