Welch-Averiett House · Photo: Rivers Langley; SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Fayetteville
11% of Fayetteville’s land is conserved, about 1,188 acres. 0.8 miles of mapped trail cross Fayetteville.
Ahead of 16% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Fayetteville?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Fayetteville have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Fayetteville is ahead of 16% of U.S. towns. Conserved land holds the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.
Few Alabama towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Fayetteville’s 11% is ahead of 95% of Alabama towns, while its trails per square mile lead 27% of them.
Water is 12% of Fayetteville’s area (2 of 20 square miles), so every share here is of land; over land and water together, the conserved share would read 9%.
PAD-US, OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), Census 2025 Gazetteer and 2020 blocks; details in Sources below. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
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1,188 conserved acres
11% of Fayetteville’s land. Water is left out: Fayetteville has 17.4 square miles of land and 2.3 of water, so the share counts land only. Who manages Fayetteville’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 425 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. Public access isn’t recorded for 1 of 2 parcels. The walks above are places people visit.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| State-owned Submerged Lands Resource Management Area | State natural resources | 764 | Open |
1 lakes & rivers
2 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The best walking months in Fayetteville: 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) | 10.2 | 11.0 | 11.9 | 13.0 | 13.9 | 14.3 | 14.1 | 13.4 | 12.3 | 11.3 | 10.4 | 10.0 |
| High (°F) | 55 | 60 | 68 | 76 | 83 | 88 | 91 | 91 | 86 | 76 | 66 | 58 |
| Rain (in) | 5.3 | 5.5 | 5.3 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 4.5 | 5.1 |
October is the driest month (3.4 in) and July the warmest (highs of 91 °F). 5.5 inches fall in February, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 91 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Fayetteville →
Fayetteville and its neighbors
Fayetteville has the second most mapped trails of the 2 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.
| Town | Conserved of land | Trail mi per sq mi | Park acres per 1,000 | Near a park ½ mile | Outdoors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fayetteville | 11% | under 0.1 | under 1 | under 1% | C− |
| Sylacauga | under 1% | 0.1 | 1 | 25% | D |
The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.
Questions about parks and trails in Fayetteville
How much of Fayetteville is conserved land?
11% 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.
Is there public land near Fayetteville?
11,465 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Fayetteville or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 768 of them inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Fayetteville have?
Ahead of 16% 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 Fayetteville neighbors.
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 →