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2013-07-04 17 32 49 View of Jackpot in Nevada from a hill to the westPhoto: Famartin · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Outdoors in Jackpot

More than half of Jackpot’s land is conserved: 56%

56% of Jackpot’s land is conserved, about 1,411 acres. 13 miles of mapped trail cross Jackpot, 3.4 per square mile of land.

Ahead of 51% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
56%
1,411 acres · of 3.9 sq mi of land
Trails
13 mi
3.4 per sq mi of land
Near a park
under 1%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Jackpot?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Jackpot have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Jackpot is ahead of 51% of U.S. towns. Conserved land holds the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Jackpot’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 51%
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How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would range from C to B+. 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

1,411 conserved acres

56% of Jackpot’s land. Who manages Jackpot’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Bureau of Land Management1,411 ac
National Public Lands · 1,411 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Wells Field Office
National Public Lands
Bureau of Land Management1,411Open
Things to do

3 places to go in Jackpot

Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.

Playgrounds in Jackpot

3 playgrounds without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.

Biking & sports

0.0 miles of bike routes

Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

Courts & fields
2Tennis
2Basketball
1Baseball
1Softball

Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.

When to get out

The best walking months in Jackpot: May, June and September

NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals for the town and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 59 to 86 °F and little rain for the place.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)9.410.511.813.314.515.214.913.912.411.09.79.1
High (°F)394250576777888777624839
Rain (in)0.80.60.91.21.81.10.50.50.70.80.80.8

July is the driest month (0.5 in) and the warmest (highs of 88 °F). 1.8 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 88 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Jackpot →

Questions about parks and trails in Jackpot

How much of Jackpot is conserved land?

56% of its land, against a typical 5% for a Nevada town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Jackpot?

205,302 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Jackpot or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 1,416 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Jackpot have?

Ahead of 51% 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 Jackpot 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 →