Outdoors · St. Ignace

St. Ignace, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 7.2% of St. Ignace is conserved land, roughly 121 acres. There are about 5.2 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Straits State Park (1.8 mi) and Little Bear Sports Park (0.6 mi).

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

At a glance

St. Ignace outdoors

Conserved land
7.2%
121 of 1,682 acres
Trails
5.2 mi
2 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
8
49 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
1.7 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.8 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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Straits State Park

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
112 acres1.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Little Bear Sports Park

Park
18 acres0.6 mi of trail
Little Bear Fitness Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead
3

Straits of Mackinac Underwater Preserve

Nature preserve
9 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

American Legion Veterans Memorial Park

Park
3 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

121 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
113 ac
Town or city
8 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.8 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes1.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Basketball6
  • Baseball3
  • Tennis3
  • Softball2
  • Beach volleyball2
  • Football1
  • Volleyball1

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

Nearby

St. Ignace and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
St. Ignace7.2%5.2 mi8
Moran41.3%236.7 mi9
St. Ignace53.7%57.0 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about St. Ignace'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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