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Silver Beach County Park
Park
29 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · St. Joseph
St. Joseph, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 4.7% of St. Joseph is conserved land, roughly 142 acres. There are about 2.2 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Silver Beach County Park (0.5 mi) and Tiscornia Park (0.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in St. Joseph, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
St. Joseph outdoors
Conserved land
4.7%
142 of 3,042 acres
Trails
2.2 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 1 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
11
18 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
3.3 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 3.3 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
Tiscornia Park
Park
14 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Southwest Michigan Underwater Preserve
Nature preserve
824 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Kiwanis Park
Managed by City of St. Joseph
20 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 11 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 11 parks & preserves
Silver Beach County Park29 acres · 0.5 mi of trail
Tiscornia Park14 acres · 0.5 mi of trail
Kiwanis Park20 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · City of St. Joseph
City Boat Launch5 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · City of St. Joseph
Southwest Michigan Underwater Preserve824 acres
Lookout Park13 acres
Lake Bluff Park9 acres
Dickenson Park8 acres
Margaret Upton Arboretum4 acres
Whittlesey Park3 acres
Who protects the land
142 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths3.3 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis9
- Baseball6
- Basketball2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
St. Joseph and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Joseph | 4.7% | 2.2 mi | 11 |
| St. Joseph | 10.2% | 5.9 mi | 8 |
| Benton Harbor | 3.2% | 2.9 mi | 8 |
| Shoreham | 1.9% | 0.0 mi | 1 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about St. Joseph'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.