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Outdoors in Hooper Bay

Hooper Bay has 9.2 miles of mapped trails, 1.3 for every square mile of land

3% of Hooper Bay’s land is conserved, about 142 acres.

Ahead of 27% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
3%
142 acres · of 7.3 sq mi of land
Trails
9.2 mi
1.3 per sq mi of land
Near a park
under 1%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Hooper Bay?

Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.

A trail town1.3 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land, more than 85% of U.S. towns.
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Hooper Bay have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Hooper Bay is ahead of 27% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Hooper Bay’s overall grade.
Conserved land3% of the land · typical AK town 15% · U.S. 4%B−Trails1.3 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (9 mi) · AK 0.5 · U.S. 0.4APark land0.0 acres of park per 1,000 residents (0 acres) · AK 15 · U.S. 13DParks close to home0% of residents within a half mile of a park · AK 36% · U.S. 72%D−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 27%
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Alaska towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 15%; the U.S., 4%), so Hooper Bay’s 3% is ahead of 10% of Alaska towns, while its trails per square mile lead 76% of them.

How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would range from D to C+. Trails and many small parks come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by volunteers, so coverage varies from town to town; the half mile is a straight line from each census block, so a river or highway in the way isn’t counted against it.

PAD-US, OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), Census 2025 Gazetteer and 2020 blocks; details in Sources below. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →

The map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it.

Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Who protects it

142 conserved acres

3% of Hooper Bay’s land. Who manages Hooper Bay’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service280 ac
National Wildlife Refuge · 280 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge
National Wildlife Refuge
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service280Restricted
Trails & water

2 named trails

Named trails
Beach Access Trail0.2 mi
Housing Boardwalk0.1 mi

Questions about parks and trails in Hooper Bay

How much of Hooper Bay is conserved land?

3% of its land, against a typical 15% for an Alaska town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

How much outdoors does Hooper Bay have?

Ahead of 27% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade. The grade combines the share of land that is conserved, miles of mapped trail per square mile of land, park acres per 1,000 residents and the share of residents within a half mile of a park. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

Trail talk

Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Hooper Bay neighbors.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Conserved and public land: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), service updated July 2026. Parks, trails, playgrounds, beaches and other places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), map data as of 2026-10-28. Land and water area: Census 2025 Gazetteer. Residents near a park: 2020 Census blocks. National Register: National Park Service. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →