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Huron Middle School CAPhoto: David Jordan at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0
B+Outdoors
Outdoors in Huron

Virtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park in Huron

Virtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park. 1.7 miles of mapped trail cross Huron, 1.0 per square mile of land. 26 acres are parks and preserves, 4.0 per 1,000 residents.

Ahead of 67% of U.S. towns · #385 of 847 in California. What drives it

Conserved land
2%
21 acres · of 1.7 sq mi of land
Trails
1.7 mi
1.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
26 ac
4.0 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
99%+
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Huron?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Huron have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Huron is ahead of 67% of U.S. towns, #385 of 847 in California. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; park acres per resident pull it down.

B+
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Huron’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 67%
LessMore
California towns of 2,500+ (847)Ahead of 55%
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.

123
Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Pick a walk

Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.

Huron Community Park

Park
11 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet

Keenan Park

Park
9 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot

Huron Recreation Center

Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects it

21 conserved acres

2% of Huron’s land. Who manages Huron’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Regional agency21 ac
Local Park · 21 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Chestnut Park
Local Park
Regional agency11Open
Keenan Park
Local Park
Regional agency11Open
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
6Basketball
1Baseball

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

When to get out

The best walking months in Huron: April and May

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)9.910.811.913.114.114.614.413.512.411.210.29.7
High (°F)576369768492989792816758
Rain (in)1.51.31.20.50.30.10.00.00.10.40.51.0

July is the driest month (under 0.1 in) and the warmest (highs of 98 °F). 1.5 inches fall in January, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 98 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Huron →

Questions about parks and trails in Huron

How much of Huron is conserved land?

2% 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.

Are dogs allowed on Huron’s trails?

Huron Community Park and Keenan Park don’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.

Is there public land near Huron?

1,315 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Huron or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 26 of them inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Huron have?

Ahead of 67% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #385 of 847 in California. 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 Huron 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 →