Ashville Community Park
Park
5 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Photo: Rudi Weikard · CC BY-SA 3.0DOutdoors
Outdoors in Ashville
Few parks or trails are on the map in Ashville
11% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 4 acres are parks and preserves, 1.7 per 1,000 residents. 0.6 miles of mapped trail cross Ashville.
Ahead of 10% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Conserved land
1%
118 acres · of 19.2 sq mi of land
Trails
0.6 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
4 ac
1.7 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
11%
of residents within ½ mile
What kind of outdoors town is Ashville?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
Outdoors grade
How much outdoors does Ashville have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Ashville is ahead of 10% of U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; conserved land comes closest.
D
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Ashville’s overall grade.
Conserved land1% of the land · typical AL town 1% · U.S. 4%CTrails0.0 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (1 mi) · AL 0.1 · U.S. 0.4C−Park land1.7 acres of park per 1,000 residents (4 acres) · AL 8 · U.S. 13C−Parks close to home11% of residents within a half mile of a park · AL 36% · U.S. 72%C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 10%
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Few Alabama towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Ashville’s 1% is ahead of 52% of Alabama towns, while its trails per square mile lead 23% of them.
NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Ashville. OpenStreetMap is mapped by volunteers and coverage varies from town to town, so a town with unmapped parks scores low on them.
How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would still be D. 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
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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk
Pick a walk
Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.
Who protects it
118 conserved acres
1% of Ashville’s land. Who manages Ashville’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other state land88 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits31 ac
Mitigation Land or Bank · 88 acPrivate Conservation · 31 ac
Good to know
Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. Public access isn’t recorded for 1 of 2 parcels. The walks above are places people visit.
The biggest protected parcels
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canoe Creek Mitigation Land or Bank | Other state land | 88 | Closed |
| Dry Creek Preserve Private Conservation | Land trusts & nonprofits | 31 | Unknown |
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
6Baseball
1Football
1Tracks
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
History along the way
History →4 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
When to get out
The best walking months in Ashville: April and May
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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 10.1 | 10.9 | 11.9 | 13.0 | 13.9 | 14.4 | 14.2 | 13.4 | 12.3 | 11.3 | 10.4 | 9.9 |
| High (°F) | 53 | 58 | 66 | 75 | 82 | 88 | 91 | 90 | 85 | 75 | 64 | 56 |
| Rain (in) | 5.2 | 5.4 | 5.8 | 5.0 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 5.3 |
October is the driest month (3.6 in) and July the warmest (highs of 91 °F). 5.8 inches fall in March, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 91 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Ashville →
Questions about parks and trails in Ashville
How much of Ashville is conserved land?
1% of its land, against a typical 1% for an Alabama town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.
Are dogs allowed on Ashville’s trails?
Ashville Community Park doesn’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.
Is there public land near Ashville?
4,005 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Ashville or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 4 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Ashville have?
Ahead of 10% 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 Ashville 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 →