Outdoors · Wells

Wells, MI parks, trails & bike paths

About 4.8% of Wells is conserved land, roughly 1,214 acres. There are about 21 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Pioneer Trail Park (0.6 mi).

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

At a glance

Wells outdoors

Conserved land
4.8%
1,214 of 25,472 acres
Trails
21 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
251 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
3.6 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 3.6 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

Pioneer Trail Park

Park
85 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Bay de Noc Beagle Club

Nature preserve
182 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

City Park

Park
30 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

1,214 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other state land
990 ac
Private owners
106 ac
County
81 ac
Town or city
36 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 140 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 paths3.6 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball4
  • Basketball2

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

Nearby

Wells and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Wells4.8%21.3 mi3
Escanaba5.1%10.0 mi11
Escanaba0.1%50.1 mi1
Ford River1.5%90.9 mi4
Bark River0.4%36.3 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Wells'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 25.4-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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