Outdoors · Big Spring
Big Spring, OH parks, trails & bike paths
There are about 1.9 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Springville Marsh State Nature Preserve (0.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Big Spring, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Big Spring outdoors
Conserved land
0.9%
201 of 23,195 acres
Trails
1.9 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
1
114 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
Places to walk
Parks & preserves with trails
Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1Springville Marsh State Nature Preserve
Managed by Ohio Department of natural Resources
215 acres0.7 mi of trail
Springville Marsh Boardwalk
🐕Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
Things to do
Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more
Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Playgrounds in Big Spring
Trails
Named trails
Unpaved 0.7 mi
- Springville Marsh Boardwalk0.7 mi
Who protects the land
201 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
201 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
- Baseball5
- Basketball4
- Tennis1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Public lands
The biggest protected places in Big Spring
From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
State Conservation Area 201 ac
| Place | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|
| Springville Marsh Dedicated Nature PreserveState Conservation Area | State natural resources | 201 | Closed |
History
Historic places to visit
🪦Big Spring CemeteryCemetery
🪦French Town CemeteryCemetery
🪦Saint Boniface CemeteryCemetery
🪦Saint Peters CemeteryCemetery
Nearby
Big Spring and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Big Spring'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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