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Outdoors in Quitman

Quitman has 21 acres of parks, 5.1 for every 1,000 residents

1% of Quitman’s land is conserved, about 32 acres. 54% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 1.0 miles of mapped trail cross Quitman, 0.2 per square mile of land.

Ahead of 30% of U.S. towns · #177 of 264 in Georgia. What drives it

Conserved land
1%
32 acres · of 4.1 sq mi of land
Trails
1.0 mi
0.2 per sq mi of land
Park land
21 ac
5.1 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
54%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Quitman?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Quitman have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Quitman is ahead of 30% of U.S. towns, #177 of 264 in Georgia. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; trail miles come closest.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Quitman’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 30%
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Georgia towns of 2,500+ (264)Ahead of 33%

Few Georgia towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Quitman’s 1% is ahead of 37% of Georgia towns, while its trails per square mile lead 55% of 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

32 conserved acres

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

Town or city20 ac
County11 ac
Local Recreation Area · 22 acLocal Park · 7 acLocal Other or Unknown · 3 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Brooks County Recreation Complex
Local Recreation Area
Town or city14Open
School Number 2
Local Recreation Area
County8Open
Quitman City Park
Local Park
Town or city3Open
Court House Park
Local Park
County3Open
West End Cemetery
Local Other or Unknown
Town or city3Open
Things to do

1 places to go in Quitman

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

Playgrounds in Quitman

1 playground without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see it.

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
6Baseball
5Tennis
1Football
1Soccer

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 →
Henry Gray Turner House and GroundsBuilding · listed 1980
About it
Brooks County CourthouseBuilding · listed 1980
About it
Quitman Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1982
About it
Brooks County JailBuilding · listed 1982
About it
Bethlehem Primitive Baptist Church and CemeteryBuilding · listed 2004
About it
Harris-Ramsey-Norris HouseBuilding · listed 2008
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Quitman: 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)10.411.111.912.913.714.114.013.312.311.410.510.2
High (°F)636773798690919087807165
Rain (in)4.84.04.73.62.86.26.15.74.83.32.73.5

November is the driest month (2.7 in) and July the warmest (highs of 91 °F). 6.2 inches fall in June, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 91 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Quitman →

Questions about parks and trails in Quitman

How much of Quitman is conserved land?

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 Quitman?

25 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Quitman or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 21 of them inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Quitman have?

Ahead of 30% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #177 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 Quitman 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 →