Outdoors · Rudyard

Rudyard, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 17% of Rudyard is conserved land, roughly 9,817 acres. There are about 4.7 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Rudyard outdoors

Conserved land
17%
9,817 of 57,310 acres
Trails
4.7 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
8,757 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

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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.
1

Lake Superior State Forest - Sault Ste. Marie Unit

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
951 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Rudyard Township Park

Park
23 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

9,817 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Forest Service
6,842 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
2,809 ac
Town or city
115 ac
Other state land
51 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2,859 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

  • Baseball1

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

Nearby

Rudyard and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Rudyard17.1%4.7 mi2
Kinross47.3%102.3 mi4
Trout Lake79.8%142.4 mi11
Pickford15.5%32.6 mi4
Marquette21.5%58.4 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Rudyard'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 31.6-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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