Outdoors · Johnson

Johnson, IN parks, trails & bike paths

About 11% of Johnson is conserved land, roughly 2,195 acres. There are about 4.9 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Hardy Lake State Recreation Area (4.3 mi).

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

At a glance

Johnson outdoors

Conserved land
11%
2,195 of 19,976 acres
Trails
4.9 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
1
947 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

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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.
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Hardy Lake State Recreation Area

Park
2,133 acres4.3 mi of trail
Outward Bound TrailIsland TrailCemetery TrailHoneysuckle TrailLakeside Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

2,195 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State parks
2,195 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

  • Basketball1

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

Nearby

Johnson and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Johnson11%4.9 mi1
Marion1.9%2.5 mi1
Graham1.1%0.2 mi1
Lexington0%3.3 mi0
Vienna3%3.1 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Johnson'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 24.3-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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