Photo: Fruitianslip · CC BY-SA 4.0Los Ranchos has 8.9 miles of mapped trails, 3.1 for every square mile of land
OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Los Ranchos 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
What kind of outdoors town is Los Ranchos?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Los Ranchos have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Los Ranchos is ahead of 17% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.
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
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2 places to go in Los Ranchos
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
2 playgrounds without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.
1 lakes & rivers
0.2 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.
The best walking months in Los Ranchos: April to 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.
| 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) | 64 | 64 | 66 | 67 | 69 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 76 | 74 | 69 | 64 |
| Rain (in) | 3.6 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 2.7 |
July is the driest month (under 0.1 in) and September the warmest (highs of 76 °F). 3.6 inches fall in January, the wettest month. The climate in Los Ranchos →
Questions about parks and trails in Los Ranchos
How much of Los Ranchos is conserved land?
under 1% 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.
Where can I bike in Los Ranchos?
0.2 miles of bike routes are on the map: 0.2 of shoulders and shared lanes.
Is there public land near Los Ranchos?
20,182 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Los Ranchos or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Los Ranchos 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 Los Ranchos 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 →