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Ault, ColoradoPhoto: Jeffrey Beall · CC BY-SA 3.0
C+Outdoors
Outdoors in Ault

Ault has 10 acres of parks, 4.1 for every 1,000 residents

91% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 1.1 miles of mapped trail cross Ault, 0.6 per square mile of land.

Ahead of 39% of U.S. towns · #139 of 159 in Colorado. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 1.8 sq mi of land
Trails
1.1 mi
0.6 per sq mi of land
Park land
10 ac
4.1 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
91%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Ault?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Ault have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Ault is ahead of 39% of U.S. towns, #139 of 159 in Colorado. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Ault’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 39%
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Colorado towns of 2,500+ (159)Ahead of 13%

Colorado towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 7%; the U.S., 4%), so Ault’s under 1% is ahead of 3% of Colorado towns, while its trails per square mile lead 22% of them.

How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would range from C to B. 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.

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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.

Liberty Park

Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot

Caboose Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot

Memorial Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot
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
2Basketball
1Baseball
1Football

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

When to get out

The best walking months in Ault: April to June

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)9.610.611.813.214.415.114.813.812.411.09.99.3
High (°F)434656627283908779655243
Rain (in)0.30.30.71.52.31.81.81.71.21.10.50.3

January is the driest month (0.3 in) and July the warmest (highs of 90 °F). 2.3 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 90 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Ault →

Questions about parks and trails in Ault

How much of Ault is conserved land?

under 1% of its land, against a typical 7% for a Colorado town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Are dogs allowed on Ault’s trails?

Liberty Park and Caboose Park don’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.

Is there public land near Ault?

4,834 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Ault or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 10 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Ault have?

Ahead of 39% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #139 of 159 in Colorado. 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 Ault 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 →