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C+Outdoors
Outdoors in Wallace

Wallace has 8.2 miles of mapped trails, 0.7 for every square mile of land

14% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 1% of Wallace’s land is conserved, about 72 acres. 73 acres are parks and preserves, 17 per 1,000 residents.

Ahead of 40% of U.S. towns · #373 of 638 in Florida. What drives it

Conserved land
1%
72 acres · of 11.8 sq mi of land
Trails
8.2 mi
0.7 per sq mi of land
Park land
73 ac
17 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
14%
of residents within ½ mile
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Wallace have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Wallace is ahead of 40% of U.S. towns, #373 of 638 in Florida. Trail miles hold the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.

C+
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Wallace’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 40%
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Florida towns of 2,500+ (638)Ahead of 42%
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.

Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Who protects it

72 conserved acres

1% of Wallace’s land. Who manages Wallace’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

County72 ac
Local Park · 72 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Santa Rosa Sports Plex
Local Park
County72Open
Things to do

2 places to go in Wallace

Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.

Playgrounds in Wallace

2 playgrounds without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.

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
16Baseball
2Tennis

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

When to get out

The best walking months in Wallace: 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)10.411.111.912.913.714.113.913.212.311.410.610.2
High (°F)626672788589919187807164
Rain (in)5.24.65.15.13.86.46.86.76.04.24.35.1

May is the driest month (3.8 in) and July the warmest (highs of 91 °F). 6.8 inches fall in July, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 91 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Wallace →

Next door

Wallace and its neighbors

Wallace has the second most mapped trails of the 2 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.

TownConserved
of land
Trail mi
per sq mi
Park acres
per 1,000
Near a park
½ mile
Outdoors
Wallace1%0.71714%C+
Pace12%0.4218%C+

The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.

Questions about parks and trails in Wallace

How much of Wallace is conserved land?

1% of its land, against a typical 3% for a Florida town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Wallace?

2,117 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Wallace or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 73 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Wallace have?

Ahead of 40% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #373 of 638 in Florida. 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 Wallace 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 →