Augusta City Park
Managed by City of Augusta Arkansas
3 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot
Jess Norman Post 166 American Legion Hut · Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0C+Outdoors
Outdoors in Augusta
6% of Augusta’s land is conserved: 74 acres
5 acres are parks and preserves, 2.8 per 1,000 residents. 0.9 miles of mapped trail cross Augusta, 0.4 per square mile of land. 56% of residents live within a half mile of a park.
Ahead of 45% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Conserved land
6%
74 acres · of 2.1 sq mi of land
Trails
0.9 mi
0.4 per sq mi of land
Park land
5 ac
2.8 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
56%
of residents within ½ mile
What kind of outdoors town is Augusta?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
Outdoors grade
How much outdoors does Augusta have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Augusta is ahead of 45% of U.S. towns. Conserved land holds the grade up; park acres per resident pull it down.
C+
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Augusta’s overall grade.
Conserved land6% of the land · typical AR town 1% · U.S. 4%BTrails0.4 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (1 mi) · AR 0.2 · U.S. 0.4BPark land2.8 acres of park per 1,000 residents (5 acres) · AR 8 · U.S. 13C−Parks close to home56% of residents within a half mile of a park · AR 46% · U.S. 72%B−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 45%
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Few Arkansas towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Augusta’s 6% is ahead of 93% of Arkansas towns, while its trails per square mile lead 76% of them.
How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would range from C to B. 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
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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.
Stanley Park
Managed by City of Augusta Arkansas, USA
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot
Who protects it
74 conserved acres
6% of Augusta’s land. Who manages Augusta’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
USDA easements (NRCS)74 ac
Conservation Easement · 74 ac
Good to know
Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 74 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. The walks above are places people visit.
History along the way
History →10 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
Ferguson HouseBuilding · listed 1975
About itWoodruff County CourthouseBuilding · listed 1982
About itAugusta Presbyterian ChurchBuilding · listed 1986
About itJess Norman Post 166 American Legion HutBuilding · listed 2001
About itAugusta Memorial Park Historic SectionSite · listed 2003
About itGeorge Washington Carver High School Home Economics BuildingBuilding · listed 2004
About itAugusta Commercial Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2008
About itAugusta Electrical Generating PlantBuilding · listed 2010
About itMathis-Hyde HouseBuilding · listed 2011
About itGregory HouseBuilding · listed 2012
About itWhen to get out
The walking year in Augusta
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) | 10.0 | 10.9 | 11.9 | 13.0 | 14.0 | 14.5 | 14.3 | 13.5 | 12.3 | 11.2 | 10.3 | 9.8 |
| High (°F) | 48 | 53 | 62 | 72 | 80 | 88 | 91 | 90 | 84 | 74 | 61 | 51 |
| Rain (in) | 3.6 | 3.9 | 4.9 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.1 |
August is the driest month (3.3 in) and July the warmest (highs of 91 °F). 5.5 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 91 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Augusta →
Questions about parks and trails in Augusta
How much of Augusta is conserved land?
6% of its land, against a typical 1% for an Arkansas town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.
Are dogs allowed on Augusta’s trails?
Augusta City Park and Stanley Park don’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.
Is there public land near Augusta?
17,085 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Augusta or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 5 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Augusta have?
Ahead of 45% 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 Augusta neighbors.
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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 →