Photo: Billwhittaker at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Cascade
0.1 miles of mapped trail cross Cascade, 0.1 per square mile of land. 81% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 19 acres are parks and preserves, 8.0 per 1,000 residents.
Ahead of 24% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Cascade?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Cascade have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Cascade is ahead of 24% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.
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.
5 places to go in Cascade
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
5 playgrounds without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.
0.5 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.
1 place on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
September is the best month for walking in Cascade
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) | 9.4 | 10.5 | 11.8 | 13.3 | 14.6 | 15.3 | 15.0 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 11.0 | 9.7 | 9.1 |
| High (°F) | 27 | 32 | 45 | 59 | 70 | 79 | 82 | 80 | 74 | 61 | 45 | 32 |
| Rain (in) | 1.2 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 5.9 | 4.8 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 2.3 | 1.7 |
January is the driest month (1.2 in) and July the warmest (highs of 82 °F). 5.9 inches fall in June, the wettest month. The climate in Cascade →
Questions about parks and trails in Cascade
How much of Cascade is conserved land?
under 1% of its land, against a typical 3% for an Iowa town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.
Where can I bike in Cascade?
0.5 miles of bike routes are on the map: 0.5 of off-road paths.
Is there public land near Cascade?
3,086 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Cascade or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 19 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Cascade have?
Ahead of 24% 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 Cascade 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 →