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Kalamazoo Township Parks

The Charter Township of Kalamazoo encompasses a wide variety of physical resources and landscape features. The quality and quantity of these natural attributes is a determining factor in the types or recreational patterns and land uses found in the neighborhoods

Kalamazoo Township offers the following facilities (Click on each park for a map, description and pictures.):

Grand Prairie Golf Course (42 acres). Nine hole golf course
Stroud Family Park (1.5 acres). Open space
Rynbrandt Park (.25 acres). Open space
Jenks and Grand Pre (.3 acres). Open space
Lakewood Park (.5 acres). Playground equipment and picnic shelter
Sheid Park aka Pinehurst and Crown (.8 acres). Limited access open space
Academy and Grand (1 acre). Traffic median area
Wilson Recreation Park (2.5 acres). Playground equipment, benches, open space

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Click here for a map showing the locations of all of the above parks.

In addition, the Kalamazoo County Expo. Center (formerly Fair Grounds), and portions of the Kalamazoo River Valley Trail and Bow in the Clouds Nature Preserve are located in Kalamazoo Township. (See related links on this page.)

Signs Are Up at Three Township Parks

Thanks go to Fire Chief Obreiter and our maintenance staff, Mike Major and John VandeGiesen for putting up signs at three of our parks that have not had signs before and special thanks go to Trustee Steve Leuty who has worked tirelessly on development of our new logo and getting the new signs printed and installed.

New Playground Equipment Installed in Stroud Family Park in May 2017

Volunteers Give Lakewood Park Gazebo a Facelift

Fire Chief David Obreiter, Battalion Chief Jairus Baird and Firefighter Chad Baker are volunteering their time and tools to replace the roof and fascia on the gazebo in Lakewood Park on the corner of Lake and Olmstead. As if fighting fires wasn't enough, THANK YOU, for all you do for your community.