Outdoors · Jackson

Jackson, WI parks, trails & bike paths

About 13% of Jackson is conserved land, roughly 2,828 acres. There are about 3.7 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Jackson Marsh State Wildlife Area (2.8 mi).

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

At a glance

Jackson outdoors

Conserved land
13%
2,828 of 21,028 acres
Trails
3.7 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
713 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.1 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.1 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

Jackson Marsh State Wildlife Area

Nature preserve
2,546 acres2.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Jackson Town Hall Park

Park
50 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Isadore & Lorraine Spaeth County Park

Park
22 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

2,828 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
2,701 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
310 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 310 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 paths0.1 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball5
  • Tennis5
  • Basketball1

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.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Jackson13.4%3.7 mi3
Jackson2.7%0.0 mi4
Cedarburg2.2%2.3 mi3
Polk3.1%3.7 mi6
Trenton3.9%1.2 mi10
Germantown1.3%9.0 mi13
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.

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