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Saginaw River Headwaters Recreation Area
Managed by Saginaw County
454 acres3.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Saginaw
Saginaw, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 6.9% of Saginaw is conserved land, roughly 790 acres. There are about 8.6 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Saginaw River Headwaters Recreation Area (3.1 mi), Frank N. Andersen Celebration Park (1.1 mi), and Crayola Park (0.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Saginaw, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Saginaw outdoors
Conserved land
6.9%
790 of 11,524 acres
Trails
8.6 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
20
18 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
2.4 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 2.4 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
Frank N. Andersen Celebration Park
Park
37 acres1.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Crayola Park
Park
9 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Bliss Park
Park
11 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Deindorfer Woods
Managed by City of Saginaw
16 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 20 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 20 parks & preserves
Saginaw River Headwaters Recreation Area454 acres · 3.1 mi of trail · Saginaw County
Frank N. Andersen Celebration Park37 acres · 1.1 mi of trail
Crayola Park9 acres · 0.7 mi of trail
Bliss Park11 acres · 0.5 mi of trail
Deindorfer Woods16 acres · 0.3 mi of trail · City of Saginaw
Rust Park45 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Hoyt Park39 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Potthoff Park16 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Morley Plaza Park3 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Greenpoint Nature Center141 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Who protects the land
790 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 paths2.4 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis22
- Basketball14
- Baseball14
- Pickleball8
- Soccer4
- Football2
- Softball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Saginaw and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saginaw | 6.9% | 8.6 mi | 20 |
| Spaulding | 43.5% | 14.9 mi | 2 |
| Buena Vista | 3% | 10.9 mi | 4 |
| Saginaw | 8.9% | 10.5 mi | 14 |
| Bridgeport | 6.2% | 6.1 mi | 4 |
| James | 45.6% | 21.8 mi | 2 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Saginaw'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.