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Outdoors in Hamburg

Few parks or trails are on the map in Hamburg

0.5 miles of mapped trail cross Hamburg, 0.1 per square mile of land. 58% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 31 acres are parks and preserves, 11 per 1,000 residents.

Ahead of 33% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
1%
22 acres · of 3.4 sq mi of land
Trails
0.5 mi
0.1 per sq mi of land
Park land
31 ac
11 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
58%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Hamburg?

Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Hamburg have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Hamburg is ahead of 33% of U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; park acres per resident come closest.

C
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Hamburg’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 33%
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Few Arkansas towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Hamburg’s 1% is ahead of 59% of Arkansas towns, while its trails per square mile lead 33% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Hamburg. 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 C 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.

Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Who protects it

22 conserved acres

1% of Hamburg’s land. Who manages Hamburg’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Town or city22 ac
Local Park · 22 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Norman City Park
Local Park
Town or city22Open
Things to do

3 places to go in Hamburg

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

Playgrounds in Hamburg

3 playgrounds without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.

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
4Tennis
1Football

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

History along the way

7 places on the National Register

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

History →
Watson-Sawyer HouseBuilding · listed 1975
About it
Watson HouseBuilding · listed 1977
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Hamburg Presbyterian ChurchBuilding · listed 1991
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First United Methodist ChurchBuilding · listed 1992
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Hamburg Commercial Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2009
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Hamburg Cemetery Historic SectionSite · listed 2011
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Ashley County CourthouseBuilding · listed 2023
About it
When to get out

May is the best month for walking in Hamburg

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)10.211.011.913.013.914.314.113.412.311.310.410.0
High (°F)545967758390929287776557
Rain (in)5.35.25.45.64.54.14.03.63.54.54.45.6

September is the driest month (3.5 in) and August the warmest (highs of 92 °F). 5.6 inches fall in April, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 92 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Hamburg →

Questions about parks and trails in Hamburg

How much of Hamburg is conserved land?

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 Hamburg?

112 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Hamburg or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 31 of them inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Hamburg have?

Ahead of 33% 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 Hamburg 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 →