Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 3.0Few parks or trails are on the map in New Market
33 acres are parks and preserves, 25 per 1,000 residents. 0.8 miles of mapped trail cross New Market. 39% of residents live within a half mile of a park.
Ahead of 27% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is New Market?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does New Market have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, New Market is ahead of 27% of U.S. towns. Park acres per resident hold the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.
Few Alabama towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so New Market’s under 1% is ahead of 20% of Alabama towns, while its trails per square mile lead 27% 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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32 conserved acres
under 1% of New Market’s land. Who manages New Market’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Market Recreation Center Local Park | County | 21 | Open |
| Sharon Johnston Park Local Park | County | 11 | Open |
4 places to go in New Market
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
1 playground without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see it.
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.
4 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The best walking months in New Market: 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 | 14.0 | 14.5 | 14.3 | 13.5 | 12.3 | 11.2 | 10.3 | 9.8 |
| High (°F) | 50 | 55 | 63 | 73 | 80 | 86 | 89 | 89 | 84 | 74 | 62 | 53 |
| Rain (in) | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.7 | 6.3 |
October is the driest month (3.6 in) and July the warmest (highs of 89 °F). 6.3 inches fall in December, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 89 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in New Market →
Questions about parks and trails in New Market
How much of New Market 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 New Market?
5,127 acres of parks and open public land lie inside New Market or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 33 of them inside the town line.
How much outdoors does New Market have?
Ahead of 27% 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 New Market 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 →