Photo: Robert Nunnally (flickr user: gurdonark) · CC BY 2.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Gurdon
5% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 1.6 miles of mapped trail cross Gurdon, 0.7 per square mile of land.
Ahead of 13% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Gurdon?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Gurdon have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Gurdon is ahead of 13% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.
Few Arkansas towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Gurdon’s under 1% is ahead of 8% of Arkansas towns, while its trails per square mile lead 85% 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 Gurdon
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.
1 lakes & rivers
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.
5 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service). The map also marks 1 historic points from OpenStreetMap: plaques, memorials and old buildings.
The walking year in Gurdon
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) | 54 | 58 | 67 | 75 | 82 | 89 | 93 | 93 | 87 | 76 | 64 | 56 |
| Rain (in) | 4.0 | 4.4 | 5.2 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 5.5 |
August is the driest month (3.4 in) and the warmest (highs of 93 °F). 5.6 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 93 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Gurdon →
Questions about parks and trails in Gurdon
How much of Gurdon is conserved land?
under 1% 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.
Is there public land near Gurdon?
114 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Gurdon or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Gurdon have?
Ahead of 13% 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 Gurdon 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 →