Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 3.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Morgan
4% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 0.6 miles of mapped trail cross Morgan, 0.5 per square mile of land.
Ahead of 10% of U.S. towns. What drives it
How much outdoors does Morgan have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Morgan is ahead of 10% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; park acres per resident pull it down.
Few Georgia towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Morgan’s under 1% is ahead of 1% of Georgia towns, while its trails per square mile lead 73% 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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3 named trails
The best walking months in Morgan: 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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 10.3 | 11.0 | 11.9 | 12.9 | 13.7 | 14.2 | 14.0 | 13.3 | 12.3 | 11.3 | 10.5 | 10.1 |
| High (°F) | 61 | 65 | 72 | 79 | 85 | 90 | 92 | 91 | 87 | 80 | 70 | 63 |
| Rain (in) | 4.7 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 2.9 | 5.1 | 5.7 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 5.2 |
October is the driest month (2.7 in) and July the warmest (highs of 92 °F). 5.7 inches fall in July, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 92 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Morgan →
Questions about parks and trails in Morgan
How much of Morgan 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 Morgan?
4,370 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Morgan or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Morgan have?
Ahead of 10% 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 Morgan 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 →