Archive for month: August, 2024

Have you ever wondered how many miles of trails are included in our Jeffco Open Space parks? Can you guess how many acres have been preserved? or how much land is under direct management by JCOS? Here’s the place to find out…the Jefferson County Open Space Dashboard.

This dashboard, powered by ARCGIS, pulls together a boatload of information on both parks and trails, including but not limited to types of trails, number and type of parking spaces, and the breakdown of acreage into fee, owned, managed and land under conservation easement. There’s a tab dedicated to the full list of parks, so if you’re headed to a specific section of the County for a day with Nature, you can readily visualize which parks are in that section of the Front Range.

One word of advice: always, before you head out, check for Alerts & Closures on the main website. Given all the forest management and trailhead upgrades that JCOS has been doing, you’ll want to be forewarned before heading out to your favorite parks. Both closures and park re-openings are posted on this page.

Miss Mountain Manners thinks that Jefferson County Open Space GIS & IT staff have done a wonderful job on this dashboard. She sends her kudos to them, with two thumbs up!

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