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Fort St. MichaelFort St. Michael · Public domain
–Not graded
Outdoors in St. Michael

Few parks or trails are on the map in St. Michael

3% of St. Michael’s land is conserved, about 348 acres. 2.5 miles of mapped trail cross St. Michael, 0.1 per square mile of land.

Conserved land
3%
348 acres · of 21.7 sq mi of land
Trails
2.5 mi
0.1 per sq mi of land
Near a park
under 1%
of residents within ½ mile
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
Who protects it

348 conserved acres

3% of St. Michael’s land. Water is left out: St. Michael has 21.7 square miles of land and 6.3 of water, so the share counts land only. Who manages St. Michael’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service688 ac
Bureau of Land Management1 ac
National Wildlife Refuge · 688 acNational Public Lands · 1 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge
National Wildlife Refuge
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service688Restricted
Anchorage Field Office
National Public Lands
Bureau of Land Management1Open
Trails & water

1 lakes & rivers

Lakes & rivers tap for directions
Zagoskin Lakelake
History along the way

1 place on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).

History →
Fort St. MichaelBuilding · listed 1977
About it
Next door

St. Michael and its neighbors

St. Michael has the most mapped trails of the 2 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.

St. Michael2.5 miStebbins1.5 mi
TownConserved
of land		Trail mi
per sq mi		Park acres
per 1,000		Near a park
½ mile		Outdoors
St. Michael— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Stebbins— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.

Questions about parks and trails in St. Michael

Is there public land near St. Michael?

12,548 acres of parks and open public land lie inside St. Michael or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the city line.

Trail talk

Conditions, parking and favorite walks from St. Michael 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 →