Photo: SkiVillage · CC BY 3.0Mountain Village has 25 miles of mapped trails, 7.5 for every square mile of land
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Ahead of 20% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Mountain Village?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Mountain Village have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Mountain Village is ahead of 20% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.
Colorado towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 7%; the U.S., 4%), so Mountain Village’s under 1% is ahead of 6% of Colorado towns, while its trails per square mile lead 100% 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
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2 conserved acres
under 1% of Mountain Village’s land. Who manages Mountain Village’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uncompahgre National Forest National Forest | U.S. Forest Service | 2 | Open |
5 places to go in Mountain Village
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
4 playgrounds without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.
20 named trails
10 more trails
0.0 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 Mountain Village: May 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) | 9.8 | 10.7 | 11.8 | 13.1 | 14.2 | 14.8 | 14.5 | 13.6 | 12.4 | 11.1 | 10.1 | 9.5 |
| High (°F) | 37 | 39 | 45 | 51 | 60 | 71 | 75 | 72 | 67 | 56 | 45 | 36 |
| Rain (in) | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
June is the driest month (0.9 in) and July the warmest (highs of 75 °F). 2.5 inches fall in August, the wettest month. The climate in Mountain Village →
Questions about parks and trails in Mountain Village
How much of Mountain Village 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.
Is there public land near Mountain Village?
85,431 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Mountain Village or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 7 of them inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Mountain Village have?
Ahead of 20% 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 Mountain Village 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 →