Outdoors · Sidney

Sidney, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 8.1% of Sidney is conserved land, roughly 1,808 acres. There are about 12 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Stanton State Game Area (5.5 mi).

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

At a glance

Sidney outdoors

Conserved land
8.1%
1,808 of 22,291 acres
Trails
12 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
695 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
7.6 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 7.6 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

Stanton State Game Area

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
1,819 acres5.5 mi of trail
Colby Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Derby Lake Public Access

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Pearl Lake Park

Managed by Village of Sheridan
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Nevins Lake Public Access

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

1,808 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State fish & wildlife
1,640 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
81 ac
Town or city
78 ac
Private owners
9 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 81 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 paths7.6 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball6
  • Tennis3
  • Football3
  • Basketball2

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

Nearby

Sidney and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Sidney8.1%11.9 mi4
Montcalm3.7%1.9 mi4
Fairplain21.7%10.0 mi2
Evergreen14.1%6.5 mi3
Douglass0.7%3.6 mi2
Stanton2.4%0.7 mi2
Eureka22%12.0 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Sidney'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.

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