Barrick Road City Park
Park
8 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Photo: Billwhittaker · CC BY-SA 3.0COutdoors
Outdoors in Janesville
Virtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park in Janesville
Virtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park. 11 acres are parks and preserves, 12 per 1,000 residents.
Ahead of 30% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 1.4 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
11 ac
12 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
99%+
of residents within ½ mile
What kind of outdoors town is Janesville?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
Outdoors grade
How much outdoors does Janesville have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Janesville is ahead of 30% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; trail miles pull it down.
C
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Janesville’s overall grade.
Conserved landunder 1% of the land · typical IA town 3% · U.S. 4%DTrails0.0 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (0 mi) · IA 0.3 · U.S. 0.4DPark land12 acres of park per 1,000 residents (11 acres) · IA 19 · U.S. 13B−Parks close to homeVirtually all residents within a half mile of a park · IA 91% · U.S. 72%A
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 30%
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How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would range from D to B−. 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
Places to walk
Pick a walk
Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.
Road Side Park
Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Beason-Boomer Park
Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Paul's Park
Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
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
2Beach volleyball
2Baseball
2Tennis
1Basketball
1Softball
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
When to get out
September is the best month for walking in Janesville
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) | 26 | 31 | 44 | 59 | 71 | 80 | 83 | 81 | 75 | 62 | 45 | 32 |
| Rain (in) | 1.0 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 5.8 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 1.4 |
January is the driest month (1.0 in) and July the warmest (highs of 83 °F). 5.8 inches fall in June, the wettest month. The climate in Janesville →
Questions about parks and trails in Janesville
How much of Janesville 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.
Are dogs allowed on Janesville’s trails?
Barrick Road City Park and Road Side Park don’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.
Is there public land near Janesville?
7,601 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Janesville or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 11 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Janesville have?
Ahead of 30% 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 Janesville 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 →