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Millbrook, Alabama City HallPhoto: Rivers Langley; SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0
C−Outdoors
Outdoors in Millbrook

Few parks or trails are on the map in Millbrook

16% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 58 acres are parks and preserves, 3.3 per 1,000 residents. 4% of Millbrook’s land is conserved, about 378 acres.

Ahead of 15% of U.S. towns · #136 of 187 in Alabama. What drives it

Conserved land
4%
378 acres · of 14.4 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
58 ac
3.3 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
16%
of residents within ½ mile
Lakes & rivers
2
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Millbrook have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Millbrook is ahead of 15% of U.S. towns, #136 of 187 in Alabama. Conserved land holds the grade up; trail miles pull it down.

C−
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Millbrook’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 15%
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Alabama towns of 2,500+ (187)Ahead of 27%

Few Alabama towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Millbrook’s 4% is ahead of 84% of Alabama towns, while its trails per square mile lead 6% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Millbrook. 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 range from D to C−. 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.

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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.

Mill Creek

Park
27 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot

Millbrook Park

Park
17 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot

Legacy Park

Park
9 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet

Robinson Springs Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot
Who protects it

378 conserved acres

4% of Millbrook’s land. Who manages Millbrook’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Private owners332 ac
Town or city46 ac
Private Conservation · 332 acLocal Recreation Area · 36 acLocal Park · 10 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Lanark
Private Conservation
Private owners332Restricted
Mill Creek Park
Local Recreation Area
Town or city21Open
Millbrook Civic Center & Park
Local Recreation Area
Town or city15Open
Legacy Park
Local Park
Town or city8Open
Robinson Springs Park
Local Park
Town or city1Open
Things to do

1 places to go in Millbrook

Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.

Campgrounds in Millbrook
K & K Camping Center
Directions
Trails & water

2 lakes & rivers

Lakes & rivers tap for directions
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
8Baseball
3Soccer
2Football
1Tennis

Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.

History along the way

2 places on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).

History →
Robinson Springs United Methodist ChurchBuilding · listed 1982
About it
EllerslieBuilding · listed 2013
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Millbrook: 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)10.211.011.912.913.814.314.113.312.311.310.410.0
High (°F)586370788590929288786760
Rain (in)5.05.15.34.34.14.64.84.23.73.14.05.3

October is the driest month (3.1 in) and July the warmest (highs of 92 °F). 5.3 inches fall in March, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 92 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Millbrook →

Next door

Millbrook and its neighbors

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

TownConserved
of land
Trail mi
per sq mi
Park acres
per 1,000
Near a park
½ mile
Outdoors
Millbrook4%under 0.1316%C−
Prattville2%0.11148%C

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

Questions about parks and trails in Millbrook

How much of Millbrook is conserved land?

4% 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 Millbrook’s trails?

Mill Creek and Millbrook Park don’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.

Is there public land near Millbrook?

9,559 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Millbrook or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 58 of them inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Millbrook have?

Ahead of 15% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #136 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 Millbrook 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 →