Photo: DwayneP · CC BY-SA 3.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Steele
OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Steele yet. Know a trail or a town park? Anyone can add it to OpenStreetMap, and it shows up here on the next refresh.
Behind most U.S. towns. What drives it
How much outdoors does Steele have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Steele is behind most U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; conserved land comes closest.
Few Alabama towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Steele’s under 1% is ahead of 6% of Alabama towns, while its trails per square mile lead 7% 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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1 places to go in Steele
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
1 dog park 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.
The best walking months in Steele: 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 | 10.3 | 9.9 |
| High (°F) | 53 | 58 | 66 | 74 | 81 | 88 | 90 | 90 | 85 | 75 | 64 | 56 |
| Rain (in) | 5.2 | 5.4 | 5.8 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 5.4 |
October is the driest month (3.6 in) and July the warmest (highs of 90 °F). 5.8 inches fall in March, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 90 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Steele →
Steele and its neighbors
Steele 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steele | under 1% | under 0.1 | under 1 | under 1% | D− |
| Rainbow City | 2% | under 0.1 | 5 | 21% | C− |
The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.
Questions about parks and trails in Steele
How much of Steele 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 Steele?
4,901 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Steele or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Steele have?
Behind most 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 Steele 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 →