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A+Outdoors
Outdoors in Crocker

Crocker has 1,477 acres of parks, 1,178 for every 1,000 residents

33% of Crocker’s land is conserved, about 1,524 acres. 11 miles of mapped trail cross Crocker, 1.6 per square mile of land. 96% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

Among the top 1% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
33%
1,524 acres · of 7.1 sq mi of land
Trails
11 mi
1.6 per sq mi of land
Park land
1,477 ac
1,178 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
96%
of residents within ½ mile
Bike routes
1.8 mi
1.8 mi paths

What kind of outdoors town is Crocker?

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

Room to roam1,178 acres of park per 1,000 residents; the typical U.S. town has 13.Land that stays wild33% of the land is conserved; a typical Washington town, 4%.A trail town1.6 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land, more than 90% of U.S. towns.
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Crocker have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Crocker is among the top 1% of U.S. towns. All four inputs are above most U.S. towns; park acres per resident rank highest, the share of residents near a park lowest.

A+
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Crocker’s overall grade.
Conserved land33% of the land · typical WA town 4% · U.S. 4%A+Trails1.6 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (11 mi) · WA 0.8 · U.S. 0.4APark land1,178 acres of park per 1,000 residents (1,477 acres) · WA 11 · U.S. 13A+Parks close to home96% of residents within a half mile of a park · WA 92% · U.S. 72%A−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Among the top 1%
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How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would still be A+. 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

1,524 conserved acres

33% of Crocker’s land. Who manages Crocker’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Private owners1,444 ac
County70 ac
Town or city17 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits5 ac
Local Conservation Area · 1,451 acLocal Other or Unknown · 62 acLocal Park · 17 acConservation Easement · 3 acPrivate Conservation · 2 ac
Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 1 acre is a conservation easement, usually private land. Public access isn’t recorded for 3 of 8 parcels. The walks above are places people visit.

The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Kapowsin Timberlands
Local Conservation Area
Private owners1,444Open
Loth223
Local Other or Unknown
County62Unknown
Foothills Trail- Orting To South Prairie Section
Local Park
Town or city17Open
Hastings
Local Conservation Area
County7Open
Carbon River I
Private Conservation
Land trusts & nonprofits2Closed
Trails & water

1 named trail

Named trails
Unpaved · 0.6 mi
250th Avenue East0.2 mi
Biking & sports

1.8 miles of bike routes

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

1.8 mi
off-road bike paths
When to get out

The best walking months in Crocker: May to 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)8.910.211.813.515.015.915.514.212.510.89.38.5
High (°F)464953586570777771605045
Rain (in)6.34.55.34.83.83.01.21.42.55.07.16.4

July is the driest month (1.2 in) and August the warmest (highs of 77 °F). 7.1 inches fall in November, the wettest month. The climate in Crocker →

Next door

Crocker and its neighbors

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

Tehaleh52 miCrocker11 mi
TownConserved
of land		Trail mi
per sq mi		Park acres
per 1,000		Near a park
½ mile		Outdoors
Crocker33%1.61,17896%A+
Tehaleh2%6.03592%A−

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

Questions about parks and trails in Crocker

How much of Crocker is conserved land?

33% of its land, against a typical 4% for a Washington town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Where can I bike in Crocker?

1.8 miles of bike routes are on the map: 1.8 of off-road paths.

Is there public land near Crocker?

14,456 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Crocker or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 1,477 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Crocker have?

Among the top 1% 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 Crocker neighbors.

Town Square →
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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 →