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Lake Village Commercial Historic District 002Photo: Brandonrush · CC BY-SA 3.0
B−Outdoors
Outdoors in Lake Village

Few parks or trails are on the map in Lake Village

82% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 1% of Lake Village’s land is conserved, about 17 acres. 21 acres are parks and preserves, 9.7 per 1,000 residents.

Ahead of 45% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
1%
17 acres · of 2.4 sq mi of land
Trails
0.7 mi
0.3 per sq mi of land
Park land
21 ac
9.7 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
82%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Lake Village?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Lake Village have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Lake Village is ahead of 45% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Lake Village’s overall grade.
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 Lake Village’s 1% is ahead of 63% of Arkansas towns, while its trails per square mile lead 59% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Lake Village. 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 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

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

17 conserved acres

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

Town or city17 ac
Local Park · 13 acLocal Recreation Area · 5 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Jack R Rhones Lakefront Park
Local Park
Town or city9Open
Rodney Angel Sports Complex
Local Recreation Area
Town or city5Open
Luna Street Park
Local Park
Town or city4Open
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
1Basketball

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

History along the way

10 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.

History →
Carlton HouseBuilding · listed 1991
About it
New Hope Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Historic SectionSite · listed 1992
About it
Sam Epstein HouseBuilding · listed 1992
About it
John Tushek BuildingBuilding · listed 1993
About it
Lake Village Confederate MonumentObject · listed 1996
About it
Lake Village Post OfficeBuilding · listed 1998
About it
McGehee, Dr. E.P., InfirmaryBuilding · listed 2005
About it
Chicot County CourthouseBuilding · listed 2006
About it
Gregory Dipping VatStructure · listed 2006
About it
Lake Village Commercial Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2011
About it
When to get out

May is the best month for walking in Lake Village

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)10.210.911.913.013.914.314.213.412.311.310.410.0
High (°F)545866758390929288776556
Rain (in)5.45.35.35.74.74.03.93.73.44.44.45.5

September is the driest month (3.4 in) and July the warmest (highs of 92 °F). 5.7 inches fall in April, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 92 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Lake Village →

Questions about parks and trails in Lake Village

How much of Lake Village 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 Lake Village?

714 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Lake Village or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 21 of them inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Lake Village 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 Lake Village neighbors.

Town Square →
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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 →