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Outdoors in Jackson

Parks, trails & the outdoors in Jackson

About 38% of Jackson is conserved land, roughly 8,238 acres. There are about 2.3 miles of mapped trails.

Conserved land
38%
8,238 of 21,887 acres
Trails
2.3 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
0
named on the map
Bike routes
0.0 mi
Lakes & rivers
1
The map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Trails & water

1 lakes & rivers

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Who protects it

8,238 conserved acres

Who manages Jackson’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service11,322 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)230 ac
Conservation Easement · 11,552 ac
Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 8,238 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. The walks above are places people visit.

Next door

Jackson and its neighbors

Jackson has the second most mapped trails of the 5 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.

Trail talk

Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Jackson neighbors.

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Trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, 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.

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