Outdoors · Union

Union, OH parks, trails & bike paths

About 5.7% of Union is conserved land, roughly 1,403 acres. There are about 2.6 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Union outdoors

Conserved land
5.7%
1,403 of 24,739 acres
Trails
2.6 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
250 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
6.6 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 6.6 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

Madison Lake State Park

Managed by Ohio Department of Natural Resources
178 acres0.4 mi of trail
Sugar Maple Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Merri-Mac Park

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

1,403 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
USDA easements (NRCS)
792 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
701 ac
State natural resources
311 ac
Other state land
279 ac
County
52 ac
Not recorded
16 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,075 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 paths6.6 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Basketball6
  • Baseball4
  • Football1

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

Nearby

Union and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Union5.7%2.6 mi2
London2.6%1.0 mi3
Deer Creek2.4%0.2 mi1
Fairfield3.5%0.5 mi1
Harmony10.9%1.0 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Union'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 32.6-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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