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C−Outdoors
Outdoors in St. Michaels

St. Michaels has 13 miles of mapped trails, 3.3 for every square mile of land

OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in St. Michaels yet. Know a trail or a town park? Anyone can add it to OpenStreetMap, and it shows up here on the next refresh.

Ahead of 17% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 3.8 sq mi of land
Trails
13 mi
3.3 per sq mi of land
Near a park
under 1%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is St. Michaels?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does St. Michaels have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, St. Michaels is ahead of 17% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of St. Michaels’ overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 17%
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Arizona towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 14%; the U.S., 4%), so St. Michaels’ under 1% is ahead of 3% of Arizona towns, while its trails per square mile lead 92% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in St. Michaels. 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 D− 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
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
1Soccer
1Basketball

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

When to get out

The best walking months in St. Michaels: April to June and August

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)10.010.811.913.014.014.614.313.512.311.210.29.8
High (°F)444856637284878478675444
Rain (in)1.10.70.60.50.50.31.61.71.20.90.90.8

June is the driest month (0.3 in) and July the warmest (highs of 87 °F). 1.7 inches fall in August, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 87 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in St. Michaels →

Next door

St. Michaels and its neighbors

St. Michaels has the second most mapped trails of the 2 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.

TownConserved
of land
Trail mi
per sq mi
Park acres
per 1,000
Near a park
½ mile
Outdoors
St. Michaelsunder 1%3.3under 1under 1%C−
Window Rockunder 1%2.53347%B−

The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.

Questions about parks and trails in St. Michaels

How much of St. Michaels is conserved land?

under 1% of its land, against a typical 14% for an Arizona town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near St. Michaels?

5,784 acres of parks and open public land lie inside St. Michaels or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.

How much outdoors does St. Michaels have?

Ahead of 17% 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 St. Michaels 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 →