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Outdoors in Fairview

Few parks or trails are on the map in Fairview

0.1 miles of mapped trail cross Fairview. 20% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

Ahead of 6% of U.S. towns · #262 of 264 in Georgia. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
3 acres · of 7.5 sq mi of land
Trails
0.1 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Near a park
20%
of residents within ½ mile
Lakes & rivers
1
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Fairview have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Fairview is ahead of 6% of U.S. towns, #262 of 264 in Georgia. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; the share of residents near a park comes closest.

D
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Fairview’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 6%
LessMore
Georgia towns of 2,500+ (264)#262 of 264

Few Georgia towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Fairview’s under 1% is ahead of 3% of Georgia towns, while its trails per square mile lead 10% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Fairview. 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 still be D. 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

3 conserved acres

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

National Park Service3 ac
Historic or Cultural Area · 3 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
Historic or Cultural Area
National Park Service3Restricted
Trails & water

1 lakes & rivers

Lakes & rivers tap for directions
When to get out

The best walking months in Fairview: 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)10.010.911.913.014.014.514.313.512.311.210.39.8
High (°F)505463728086898883736153
Rain (in)5.05.25.24.74.24.14.33.84.23.84.65.3

October is the driest month (3.8 in) and July the warmest (highs of 89 °F). 5.3 inches fall in December, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 89 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Fairview →

Next door

Fairview and its neighbors

Fairview 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
Fairviewunder 1%under 0.1under 120%D
Fort Oglethorpe57%2.4529%B+

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

Questions about parks and trails in Fairview

How much of Fairview 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 Fairview?

5,923 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Fairview or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Fairview have?

Ahead of 6% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #262 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 Fairview 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 →