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Buddy Butts Park
Park
385 acres3.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Jackson
Jackson, MS parks, trails & bike paths
About 4.4% of Jackson is conserved land, roughly 3,178 acres. There are about 26 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Buddy Butts Park (3.7 mi), Lefleur's Bluff State Park (2.5 mi), and Claibourne Park (0.8 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Jackson, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Jackson outdoors
Conserved land
4.4%
3,178 of 72,573 acres
Trails
26 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
22
22 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
8.5 mi
4.6 mi lanes · 3.0 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
Lefleur's Bluff State Park
Park
366 acres2.5 mi of trail
Nature TrailLakeland Terrace
Dogs on leashMapped in OpenStreetMap
3
Claibourne Park
Park
15 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Battlefield Park
Park
51 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 22 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 22 parks & preserves
Buddy Butts Park385 acres · 3.7 mi of trail
Lefleur's Bluff State Park366 acres · 2.5 mi of trail
Claibourne Park15 acres · 0.8 mi of trail
MARL DOG PARK50 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
Sykes Park22 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Laurel Park16 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · City of Jackson
Jackson Art Park1 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Battlefield Park51 acres
Manhattan Park21 acres
Parham Bridges' Park17 acres
Who protects the land
3,178 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 47 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes4.6 mi
- Off-road bike paths3.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.9 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis143
- Baseball57
- Basketball9
- Football8
- Soccer5
- Multi-sport3
- Beach volleyball2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
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 49.8-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.