Photo: Photolitherland · CC BY-SA 3.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Pottsville
0.1 miles of mapped trail cross Pottsville. 24% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 20 acres are parks and preserves, 6.2 per 1,000 residents.
Ahead of 11% of U.S. towns · #111 of 123 in Arkansas. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Pottsville?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Pottsville have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Pottsville is ahead of 11% of U.S. towns, #111 of 123 in Arkansas. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; park acres per resident come closest.
Few Arkansas towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Pottsville’s under 1% is ahead of 21% of Arkansas towns, while its trails per square mile lead 5% 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
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it.
20 conserved acres
under 1% of Pottsville’s land. Who manages Pottsville’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pottsville Baseball Field Local Recreation Area | Town or city | 20 | Open |
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.
4 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The walking year in Pottsville
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) | 51 | 56 | 64 | 73 | 81 | 88 | 93 | 92 | 85 | 75 | 62 | 53 |
| Rain (in) | 3.6 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.9 | 4.4 |
February is the driest month (3.4 in) and July the warmest (highs of 93 °F). 5.4 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 93 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Pottsville →
Pottsville and its neighbors
Pottsville 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pottsville | under 1% | under 0.1 | 6 | 24% | D |
| Russellville | 6% | 0.2 | 21 | 54% | B− |
The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.
Questions about parks and trails in Pottsville
How much of Pottsville 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 Pottsville?
9,343 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Pottsville or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 20 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Pottsville have?
Ahead of 11% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #111 of 123 in Arkansas. 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 Pottsville 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 →