1
Ella Sharp Park
Managed by City of Jackson
534 acres10.6 mi of trail
North LoopSchool HouseTrail #1Driving RangeMuseum Trail Loop
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Jackson
Jackson, MI parks, trails & bike paths
About 10% of Jackson is conserved land, roughly 708 acres. There are about 16 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Ella Sharp Park (10.6 mi) and Sparks Foundation County Park (0.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Jackson, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Jackson outdoors
Conserved land
10%
708 of 6,932 acres
Trails
16 mi
1.4 mi per sq mi · 12 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
20
23 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
22.1 mi
10.9 mi lanes · 11.0 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
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.
2
Sparks Foundation County Park
Park
72 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Loomis Park
Park
11 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Howard Woods Sr Recreation Complex
Managed by City of Jackson
10 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
All 20 parks & preserves
- Bloomfield Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Former State Prison10 ac
- Workers Memorial Park9 ac · Directions
- Lions Park9 ac · Directions
- Best Field7 ac
- Exchange Club Playground5 ac
- Rotary Playground2 ac
- Optimist Park2 ac · Directions
- Blackman Park1 ac · Directions
- Beech Tree Park1 ac · Directions
- Austin Blair Park1 ac · Directions
- Withington Park1 ac · Directions
- Elnora Moorman Plaza1 ac
- Griffin Park1 ac · Directions
- W. George Wade Park1 ac · Directions
- Leake Park1 ac
Who protects the land
708 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes10.9 mi
- Off-road bike paths11.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.2 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis20
- Baseball19
- Basketball13
- Pickleball4
- Soccer3
- Football1
- Tracks1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Jackson and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Jackson'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 20-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.