Outdoors · Turkey

Turkey, TX parks, trails & bike paths

About 3.8% of Turkey is conserved land, roughly 20 acres. There are about 1.0 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Turkey outdoors

Conserved land
3.8%
20 of 522 acres
Trails
1.0 mi
1.3 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
named on the map
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.
1

Turkey City Park

Park
11 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Bob Wills Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Things to do

Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more

Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Playgrounds in Turkey
Unnamed playground in Turkey City Park
Directions
Trails

Named trails

Open to bikes 0.6 miHorses 0.6 miUnpaved 0.6 mi
  • Caprock Canyons Trailway0.6 mi
Who protects the land

20 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State parks
16 ac
Joint
11 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 3 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 lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
  • Caprock Canyons Trailway (bike route)0.6 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball1

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

Public lands

The biggest protected places in Turkey

From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
State Recreation Area 16 acRecreation or Education Easement 11 ac
PlaceManaged byAcresPublic access
Caprock Canyons TrailwayState Recreation AreaState parks16Open
History

Historic places to visit

1928 Phillips 66 Service StationPlaque · 2019
Bob Wills MonumentIn Bob Wills Park · Monument
First Methodist Church of TurkeyPlaque · 1991
Ham's Barber Shop (RTHL)Plaque · 2021
Hotel TurkeyPlaque · 1985
Turkey High SchoolPlaque · 1986
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Turkey'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.

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