1
Au Train Basin State Wildlife Area
Nature preserve
1,399 acres1.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Rock River
Rock River, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 17% of Rock River is conserved land, roughly 8,950 acres. There are about 35 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Au Train Basin State Wildlife Area (1.8 mi), Escanaba River State Forest - Gwinn Unit (South) (1.2 mi), and Laughing Whitefish Falls State Park (1.2 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Rock River, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Rock River outdoors
Conserved land
17%
8,950 of 51,455 acres
Trails
35 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 17 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
6
7,630 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
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
Escanaba River State Forest - Gwinn Unit (South)
Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
7,909 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Laughing Whitefish Falls State Park
Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
515 acres1.2 mi of trail
North Country Trail—Laughing Whitefish Falls State Park SpurLaughing Whitefish Falls State Park Trail
Dog rules not recorded
4
Debelak Reserve
Managed by Upper Peninsula Land Conservancy
313 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
Who protects the land
8,950 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 6 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 paths0.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball3
- Hockey rinks1
- Football1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Rock River and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Rock River'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 29.5-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.