Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Willacoochee
3.2 miles of mapped trail cross Willacoochee, 0.8 per square mile of land. 22% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 5 acres are parks and preserves, 3.5 per 1,000 residents.
Ahead of 25% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Willacoochee?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Willacoochee have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Willacoochee is ahead of 25% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.
Few Georgia towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Willacoochee’s under 1% is ahead of 6% of Georgia towns, while its trails per square mile lead 87% 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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5 conserved acres
under 1% of Willacoochee’s land. Who manages Willacoochee’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Park Local Park | Town or city | 5 | Open |
1 named trail
1 place on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The best walking months in Willacoochee: 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) | 62 | 66 | 72 | 79 | 86 | 90 | 92 | 91 | 87 | 80 | 71 | 64 |
| Rain (in) | 4.3 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 5.5 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 2.5 | 3.8 |
November is the driest month (2.5 in) and July the warmest (highs of 92 °F). 5.5 inches fall in June, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 92 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Willacoochee →
Questions about parks and trails in Willacoochee
How much of Willacoochee 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 Willacoochee?
258 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Willacoochee or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 5 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Willacoochee have?
Ahead of 25% 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 Willacoochee 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 →