Kid-Friendly Hiking Trails & Nature Walks
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Waterfall Loop Trail
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Rouge Gateway Trailhead
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Stonebridge Nature Trail (0.7 mile) Head
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Prairie Pathway (1.5 miles) Trailhead (North) & Butterfly Gardens
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Eliza Howell Trailhead
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Inkster Nature Trail
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Bell Creek Nature Preserve
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Carpenter Lake Nature Preserve
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Tonquish/Ellsworth Trailhead
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Holliday Nature Preserve
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Rotary Park Trailhead (Main)
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Rotary Park Hiking Trails
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Rotary Park Nature Preserve
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Cowan/Central City Parkway Holliday Nature Preserve Trailhead
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Lakeview Trail
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Bluegrass Park and Nature Preserve
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Lakeview Trailhead (West)
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Virginia B. Matley Nature Trail
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Haggerty West Recreation Area
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Ward Woods Nature Trails
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Weatherbee Woods Preserve
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Secrest Nature Preserve
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Kosch-Headwaters Preserve
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LeFurge Woods Nature Preserve
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Cherry Hill Nature Preserve
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Parker Mill County Park
Wooded park with a historic grist mill. This park offers forested trails, seasonal tours of its old grist mill & a museum in a cider mill.
Scarlett-Mitchell Nature Area
Diverse habitats for wildlife viewing. A 25-acre park including an old field, wetlands, wooded wildlife areas & hiking trails.
County Farm Park
Large park with gardens & play areas. Green county park featuring a wooded area, fitness trails, gardens, playgrounds & picnic pavilions.
Furstenberg Nature Area
Nature area with boardwalk & picnic area. Scenic 38-acre wetlands & woodlands park, with picnic tables, a boardwalk & walking paths.
Argo Nature Area
Waterside park with canoe/kayak rental. Riverfront park featuring canoe, kayak & paddleboat rentals, a boat launch & biking/hiking trails.
Northfield Woods Preserve
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Bluffs Nature Area
Forested area with trails & ridge views. 39-acre forested park featuring a variety of rugged hiking & biking trails & scenic ridge views.
Kuebler Langford Nature Area
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Barton Nature Area
Riverfront parkland with limited trails. River park offering picnicking & trails amid meadow, forest & marsh, some accessible by boat only.
Bird Hills Nature Area
Hilly woodland park for hiking. The city's largest park at 161 acres, this hilly green space offers unpaved woodland hiking trails.
Eberwhite Nature Area
Forest nature reserve with a loop trail. Wooded nature reserve with a 1.5-mile loop trail used by hikers & dog walkers.
Dolph Nature Area
57-acre park with 2 lakes for fishing. Wooded 57-acre park with hiking trails plus fishing from Ann Arbor's only 2 naturally formed lakes.
Scio Woods Preserve
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Burns-Stokes Preserve
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