Photo: Rivers Langley; SaveRivers · CC BY-SA 3.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Richland
1 acre is park or preserve, 0.4 per 1,000 residents. 0.3 miles of mapped trail cross Richland, 0.1 per square mile of land. 73% of residents live within a half mile of a park.
Ahead of 16% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Richland?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Richland have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Richland is ahead of 16% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.
Few Georgia towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Richland’s under 1% is ahead of 1% of Georgia towns, while its trails per square mile lead 27% 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
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it.
0.0 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
4 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.
The best walking months in Richland: 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 | 13.8 | 14.2 | 14.1 | 13.3 | 12.3 | 11.3 | 10.5 | 10.1 |
| High (°F) | 59 | 63 | 70 | 77 | 84 | 89 | 91 | 90 | 86 | 78 | 68 | 61 |
| Rain (in) | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 3.1 | 4.4 | 5.5 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 3.6 | 5.3 |
October is the driest month (2.9 in) and July the warmest (highs of 91 °F). 5.5 inches fall in July, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 91 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Richland →
Questions about parks and trails in Richland
How much of Richland 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 Richland?
5,663 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Richland or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Richland have?
Ahead of 16% 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 Richland 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 →