Photo: Salvez Dodd from Portland, OR, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Inverness has 5.3 miles of mapped trails, 4.7 for every square mile of land
18% of residents live within a half mile of a park.
Ahead of 22% of U.S. towns · #152 of 159 in Colorado. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Inverness?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Inverness have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Inverness is ahead of 22% of U.S. towns, #152 of 159 in Colorado. Trail miles hold the grade up; park acres per resident pull it down.
Colorado towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 7%; the U.S., 4%), so Inverness’ under 1% is ahead of 3% of Colorado towns, while its trails per square mile lead 97% of them.
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
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it.
0.6 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 Inverness: 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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 9.7 | 10.6 | 11.8 | 13.2 | 14.3 | 14.9 | 14.7 | 13.7 | 12.4 | 11.1 | 9.9 | 9.4 |
| High (°F) | 46 | 47 | 55 | 61 | 70 | 82 | 88 | 85 | 78 | 65 | 54 | 45 |
| Rain (in) | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.5 |
January is the driest month (0.5 in) and July the warmest (highs of 88 °F). 2.3 inches fall in July, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 88 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Inverness →
Inverness and its neighbors
Inverness has the second most mapped trails of the 3 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.
| Town | Conserved of land | Trail mi per sq mi | Park acres per 1,000 | Near a park ½ mile | Outdoors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inverness | under 1% | 4.7 | under 1 | 18% | C− |
| Centennial | 10% | 1.7 | 13 | 98% | A |
| Dove Valley | 8% | 1.2 | 30 | 99%+ | A |
The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.
Questions about parks and trails in Inverness
How much of Inverness 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.
Where can I bike in Inverness?
0.6 miles of bike routes are on the map: 0.6 of painted or protected lanes.
Is there public land near Inverness?
19,737 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Inverness or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Inverness have?
Ahead of 22% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #152 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 Inverness 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 →