Outdoors · Washington

Washington, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 14% of Washington is conserved land, roughly 3,214 acres. There are about 1.9 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Maple River State Game Area (1.1 mi).

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

At a glance

Washington outdoors

Conserved land
14%
3,214 of 22,541 acres
Trails
1.9 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 1 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
named on the map
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

Maple River State Game Area

Managed by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
2,369 acres1.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Pompeii County Park

Managed by Gratiot County
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

3,214 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State fish & wildlife
2,219 ac
Other state land
644 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
344 ac
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
8 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 352 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 paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball1

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

Nearby

Washington and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Washington14.3%1.9 mi2
North Star3.4%0.2 mi1
Elba16.8%2.3 mi4
Fulton8.9%1.2 mi4
Greenbush1.3%5.3 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Washington'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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