Few parks or trails are on the map in Dalton Gardens
3 acres are parks and preserves, 1.2 per 1,000 residents. 80% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 0.2 miles of mapped trail cross Dalton Gardens, 0.1 per square mile of land.
Ahead of 21% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Dalton Gardens?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Dalton Gardens have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Dalton Gardens is ahead of 21% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; park acres per resident pull it down.
Few Idaho towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Dalton Gardens’ under 1% is ahead of 5% of Idaho towns, while its trails per square mile lead 14% 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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3 conserved acres
under 1% of Dalton Gardens’ land. Who manages Dalton Gardens’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dalton Gardens Park Local Park | Town or city | 2 | Open |
1 named trail
The best walking months in Dalton Gardens: May to September
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) | 8.8 | 10.2 | 11.8 | 13.6 | 15.1 | 16.0 | 15.6 | 14.3 | 12.5 | 10.7 | 9.2 | 8.4 |
| High (°F) | 36 | 40 | 48 | 56 | 67 | 73 | 83 | 83 | 73 | 57 | 43 | 35 |
| Rain (in) | 3.5 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
August is the driest month (0.7 in) and July the warmest (highs of 83 °F). 3.7 inches fall in December, the wettest month. The climate in Dalton Gardens →
Dalton Gardens and its neighbors
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| Town | Conserved of land | Trail mi per sq mi | Park acres per 1,000 | Near a park ½ mile | Outdoors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dalton Gardens | under 1% | 0.1 | 1 | 80% | C− |
| Hayden | 1% | 0.2 | 4 | 86% | C+ |
| Coeur d'Alene | 6% | 1.5 | 10 | 93% | A− |
The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.
Questions about parks and trails in Dalton Gardens
How much of Dalton Gardens is conserved land?
under 1% of its land, against a typical 2% for an Idaho town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.
Is there public land near Dalton Gardens?
58,115 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Dalton Gardens or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 3 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Dalton Gardens have?
Ahead of 21% 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 Dalton Gardens 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 →