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Ashburn City Hall SE cornerPhoto: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 3.0
C−Outdoors
Outdoors in Ashburn

Few parks or trails are on the map in Ashburn

9 acres are parks and preserves, 2.1 per 1,000 residents. 0.9 miles of mapped trail cross Ashburn, 0.2 per square mile of land. 60% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

Ahead of 22% of U.S. towns · #219 of 264 in Georgia. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
9 acres · of 4.7 sq mi of land
Trails
0.9 mi
0.2 per sq mi of land
Park land
9 ac
2.1 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
60%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Ashburn?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Ashburn have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Ashburn is ahead of 22% of U.S. towns, #219 of 264 in Georgia. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; the share of residents near a park comes closest.

C−
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Ashburn’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 22%
LessMore
Georgia towns of 2,500+ (264)Ahead of 17%

Few Georgia towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Ashburn’s under 1% is ahead of 10% of Georgia towns, while its trails per square mile lead 48% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Ashburn. OpenStreetMap is mapped by volunteers and coverage varies from town to town, so a town with unmapped parks scores low on them.
How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would range from C− to C. 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

9 conserved acres

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

Town or city7 ac
Private owners1 ac
Local Park · 9 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Tom W. Whitsett Park
Local Park
Town or city7Open
Ashburn Bank Heritage Park
Local Park
Private owners1Open
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
10Tennis
2Baseball
2Basketball
1Soccer
1Football

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

History along the way

6 places on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service). The map also marks 1 historic points from OpenStreetMap: plaques, memorials and old buildings.

History →
Turner County CourthouseBuilding · listed 1980
About it
Turner County JailBuilding · listed 1982
About it
Ashburn Commercial Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1992
About it
Ashburn Heights-Hudson-College Avenue Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1992
About it
Shingler Heights Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1992
About it
Wesleyan Methodist Campground and TabernacleDistrict · listed 1998
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Ashburn: 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)10.311.011.912.913.814.214.013.312.311.310.510.1
High (°F)606471788590929186796962
Rain (in)4.54.34.63.83.14.95.04.63.72.93.14.3

October is the driest month (2.9 in) and July the warmest (highs of 92 °F). 5.0 inches fall in July, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 92 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Ashburn →

Questions about parks and trails in Ashburn

How much of Ashburn is conserved land?

under 1% of its land, against a typical 2% for a Georgia town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Ashburn?

81 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Ashburn or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 9 of them inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Ashburn have?

Ahead of 22% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #219 of 264 in Georgia. 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 Ashburn neighbors.

Town Square →
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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 →