Carpenter Lake Nature Preserve
Carpenter Lake Nature Preserve is a wheelchair accessible park in Southfield, MI, featuring a well-maintained trail around a lake, huge fascinating boulders with informative plaques, and nature areas with flowers and a vernal pond. It offers a peaceful natural setting within the city, suitable for hiking, walking dogs, and family outings with kid-friendly activities and amenities including picnic tables and gender-neutral restrooms.
Reviews
Beautiful nature. Well maintained. Trails are wide enough for bikes and hikers
This place is excellent for walking the dog, but also for getting into nature while still in the city. The trails are well maintained, and long enough that you can still maintain some solitude as you walk them, if that’s what you want. I love the vernal pond and the area left to grow naturally. The flowers are gorgeous.
Never knew this place was here. Such a neat park with the huge boulders in the front portion. I like how they have signs to explain where these huge rocks are from and how epically old they are. It’s a neat layout that has you walking about to appreciate each. You can feel the energy /vibrations of the area and it just makes you feel good. Then the trail in the back is a short hike around by the lake. Seems to have been some storm damage and trees had fallen as the platform by the lake was closed off but still able to walk around and get to the other area that’s by the lake in back. Recommend checking it out.
The rocks were very fascinating and the bathrooms were some of the nicest I’ve ever seen at a park. I wish the trail was longer and not just looking at a bunch of backyards and houses though. Cool place to check out still
Very nice park. Has a trail but right now being renovated so a big part of it is closed off. They have a big area of rocks to climb on and explore for kids. They are plaques stating where the boulders came from and what they are. This would be good for extra learning.