Ernest McCarty Oliver House · Photo: Saverivers · CC BY-SA 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in La Fayette
0.2 miles of mapped trail cross La Fayette. 16% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 10 acres are parks and preserves, 3.9 per 1,000 residents.
Ahead of 8% of U.S. towns · #169 of 187 in Alabama. What drives it
How much outdoors does La Fayette have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, La Fayette is ahead of 8% of U.S. towns, #169 of 187 in Alabama. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; park acres per resident come closest.
Few Alabama towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so La Fayette’s under 1% is ahead of 6% of Alabama towns, while its trails per square mile lead 18% of them.
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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0.0 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
2 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The best walking months in La Fayette: 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 | 13.8 | 14.3 | 14.1 | 13.4 | 12.3 | 11.3 | 10.4 | 10.0 |
| High (°F) | 56 | 60 | 68 | 75 | 82 | 87 | 90 | 89 | 84 | 75 | 66 | 58 |
| Rain (in) | 5.1 | 5.1 | 5.4 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 5.5 |
October is the driest month (3.4 in) and July the warmest (highs of 90 °F). 5.5 inches fall in December, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 90 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in La Fayette →
Questions about parks and trails in La Fayette
How much of La Fayette is conserved land?
under 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.
Is there public land near La Fayette?
173 acres of parks and open public land lie inside La Fayette or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 10 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does La Fayette have?
Ahead of 8% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #169 of 187 in Alabama. 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 La Fayette 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 →