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Middleville State Game Area
Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
534 acres4.5 mi of trail
North Country Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Thornapple
Thornapple, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 2.7% of Thornapple is conserved land, roughly 623 acres. There are about 14 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Middleville State Game Area (4.5 mi) and Wildwood Trails Park (0.8 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Thornapple, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Thornapple outdoors
Conserved land
2.7%
623 of 22,862 acres
Trails
14 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 6 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
11
65 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
5.9 mi
0.7 mi lanes · 5.1 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
Wildwood Trails Park
Park
20 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Lions Spring Park
Park
30 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Crane Road Ballfields
Managed by Village of Middleville
12 acres0.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 11 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 11 parks & preserves
Middleville State Game Area534 acres · 4.5 mi of trail · Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Wildwood Trails Park20 acres · 0.8 mi of trail
Crane Road Ballfields12 acres · 0.2 mi of trail · Village of Middleville
East Bank Riverfront Park12 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · Thornapple Township;Village of Middleville
Lions Spring Park30 acres
Duncan Lake Public Access2 acres · Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Calvin G. Hill Park2 acres
Barry State Game Area1 acres · Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Riverside Park1 acres
Stagecoach Park1 acres
Who protects the land
623 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 9 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 lanes0.7 mi
- Off-road bike paths5.1 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis12
- Baseball8
- Basketball4
- Soccer3
- Football1
- Skate park1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Thornapple and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thornapple | 2.7% | 14.4 mi | 11 |
| Irving | 17.8% | 14.8 mi | 3 |
| Yankee Springs | 56.1% | 60.3 mi | 5 |
| Caledonia | 3.9% | 10.3 mi | 10 |
| Leighton | 0% | 0.7 mi | 2 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Thornapple'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.