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C−Outdoors
Outdoors in Sandersville

Few parks or trails are on the map in Sandersville

39 acres are parks and preserves, 6.9 per 1,000 residents. 33% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 2.2 miles of mapped trail cross Sandersville, 0.2 per square mile of land.

Ahead of 22% of U.S. towns · #217 of 264 in Georgia. What drives it

Conserved land
1%
38 acres · of 12.6 sq mi of land
Trails
2.2 mi
0.2 per sq mi of land
Park land
39 ac
6.9 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
33%
of residents within ½ mile
Lakes & rivers
3

What kind of outdoors town is Sandersville?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Sandersville have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Sandersville is ahead of 22% of U.S. towns, #217 of 264 in Georgia. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; trail miles come closest.

C−
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Sandersville’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 22%
LessMore
Georgia towns of 2,500+ (264)Ahead of 18%

Few Georgia towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Sandersville’s 1% is ahead of 17% of Georgia towns, while its trails per square mile lead 46% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Sandersville. 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

38 conserved acres

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

County38 ac
Local Park · 38 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Washington County Kaolin Park
Local Park
County30Open
Splash Pad Park
Local Park
County8Open
Trails & water

3 lakes & rivers

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
8Baseball
8Tennis
2Basketball
1Soccer

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

History along the way

10 places on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service). The map also marks 3 historic points from OpenStreetMap: plaques, memorials and old buildings.

History →
Washington County CourthouseBuilding · listed 1980
About it
Elder, Thomas Jefferson, High and Industrial SchoolBuilding · listed 1981
About it
City CemeterySite · listed 1987
About it
Church-Smith-Harris Street Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1987
About it
North Harris Street Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1989
About it
Holt Brothers Banking Company BuildingBuilding · listed 1994
About it
James E. Johnson HouseBuilding · listed 1994
About it
Sandersville Commercial and Industrial DistrictDistrict · listed 2002
About it
Forest GroveDistrict · listed 2005
About it
Sandersville High SchoolBuilding · listed 2019
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Sandersville: 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)10.211.011.913.013.814.314.113.412.311.310.410.0
High (°F)586269778489929086776760
Rain (in)4.24.14.63.33.14.34.25.03.92.83.04.3

October is the driest month (2.8 in) and July the warmest (highs of 92 °F). 5.0 inches fall in August, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 92 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Sandersville →

Questions about parks and trails in Sandersville

How much of Sandersville 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 Sandersville?

44 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Sandersville or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 39 of them inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Sandersville have?

Ahead of 22% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #217 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 Sandersville 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 →