Outdoors · Wales

Wales, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 4.8% of Wales is conserved land, roughly 1,145 acres. There are about 3.7 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Goodells County Park (2.8 mi).

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

At a glance

Wales outdoors

Conserved land
4.8%
1,145 of 23,813 acres
Trails
3.7 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
359 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 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

Goodells County Park

Managed by St Clair County
341 acres2.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Pine River Nature Center

Managed by St Clair County Regional Educational Service Agency
113 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
3

Edna S. Newnan Nature Sanctuary

Managed by Michigan Nature Association
84 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

1,145 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
County
534 ac
Private owners
525 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
87 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

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

Courts & fields

  • Equestrian3

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

Nearby

Wales and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Wales4.8%3.7 mi3
Kenockee0.4%3.0 mi2
Riley0.9%0.6 mi2
Columbus0.1%9.7 mi3
Kimball6.7%7.0 mi7
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Wales'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 20.6-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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