Roberts Park
Managed by Thomas Township
48 acres0.3 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lotWebsite ↗
Outdoors in Shields
Parks, trails & the outdoors in Shields
About 4.2% of Shields is conserved land, roughly 213 acres. There are about 1.1 miles of mapped trails.
Conserved land
4.2%
213 of 5,109 acres
Trails
1.1 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
29 conserved acres per 1,000 people
Bike routes
0.0 mi
The map
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk
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The longest trail network is Roberts Park, with 0.3 miles. Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.
Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge
Managed by United States Fish and Wildlife Service
44 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yetWebsite ↗
Things to do
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Trails & water
1 named trail
Named trails
Thomas Township Trail0.6 mi
Who protects it
213 conserved acres
Who manages Shields’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Private owners109 ac
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service91 ac
Town or city58 ac
National Wildlife Refuge · 91 acLocal Park · 58 acPrivate Other or Unknown · 56 acPrivate Park · 52 ac
The biggest protected places
| Place | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge National Wildlife Refuge | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | 91 | Restricted |
| Utility Corridor Private Other or Unknown | Private owners | 56 | Open |
| Roberts Community Park Local Park | Town or city | 55 | Open |
| Saginaw Gun Club Private Park | Private owners | 52 | Open |
| Day Park Local Park | Town or city | 4 | Open |
Biking & sports
0.0 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
0.0 mi
painted or protected bike lanes
0.0 mi
off-road bike paths
0.0 mi
shoulders & shared lanes
Courts & fields
12Baseball
6Soccer
2Football
1Basketball
1Tennis
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
History along the way
History →1 old cemetery
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Shields and its neighbors
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Trail talk
Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Shields neighbors.
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Trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, 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.