Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Dunsmuir

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
Lovely DunsmuirPhoto: LokiBoone · CC BY-SA 4.0
A−Outdoors
Outdoors in Dunsmuir

Dunsmuir has 30 acres of parks, 21 for every 1,000 residents

3.1 miles of mapped trail cross Dunsmuir, 1.9 per square mile of land. 89% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 3% of Dunsmuir’s land is conserved, about 28 acres.

Ahead of 80% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
3%
28 acres · of 1.6 sq mi of land
Trails
3.1 mi
1.9 per sq mi of land
Park land
30 ac
21 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
89%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Dunsmuir?

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

A trail town1.9 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land, more than 93% of U.S. towns.Parks close to home89% of residents live within a half mile of a park.
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Dunsmuir have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Dunsmuir is ahead of 80% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.

A−
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Dunsmuir’s overall grade.
Conserved land3% of the land · typical CA town 4% · U.S. 4%B−Trails1.9 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (3 mi) · CA 0.9 · U.S. 0.4APark land21 acres of park per 1,000 residents (30 acres) · CA 5 · U.S. 13B+Parks close to home89% of residents within a half mile of a park · CA 91% · U.S. 72%B+
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 80%
LessMore
How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would range from B+ to A. 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

28 conserved acres

3% of Dunsmuir’s land. Who manages Dunsmuir’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Regional agency14 ac
State fish & wildlife9 ac
U.S. Forest Service4 ac
Local Park · 14 acState Recreation Area · 9 acNational Forest · 4 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Dunsmuir City Park
Local Park
Regional agency14Open
Tauhindauli Public Access
State Recreation Area
State fish & wildlife9Open
Shasta National Forest
National Forest
U.S. Forest Service4Open
Things to do

8 places to go in Dunsmuir

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

Community gardens in Dunsmuir
Dunsmuir Community Garden
Directions

Plus 1 community garden without a name on the map.

Trails & water

1 named trail

Named trails
Hedge Creek Falls Trail0.3 mi
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
3Tennis
3Basketball
1Baseball
1Football

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

History along the way

1 place 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 →
Dunsmuir Historic Commercial DistrictDistrict · listed 1982
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Dunsmuir: April to June and September

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)9.510.611.813.314.515.114.913.812.411.09.89.2
High (°F)485257637281909083705546
Rain (in)7.97.97.03.32.21.00.10.20.52.55.89.4

July is the driest month (0.1 in) and the warmest (highs of 90 °F). 9.4 inches fall in December, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 90 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Dunsmuir →

Questions about parks and trails in Dunsmuir

How much of Dunsmuir is conserved land?

3% of its land, against a typical 4% for a California town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Dunsmuir?

83,951 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Dunsmuir or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 34 of them inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Dunsmuir have?

Ahead of 80% 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 Dunsmuir neighbors.

Town Square →
Share a tip
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 →