Hansen Park
Park
9 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Charles C. Vineyard House · Photo: 25or6to4 · CC BY-SA 4.0COutdoors
Outdoors in Hansen
Virtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park in Hansen
Virtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park. 8 acres are parks and preserves, 6.2 per 1,000 residents.
Ahead of 26% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 0.3 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
8 ac
6.2 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
99%+
of residents within ½ mile
What kind of outdoors town is Hansen?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
Outdoors grade
How much outdoors does Hansen have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Hansen is ahead of 26% 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 Hansen’s overall grade.
Conserved landunder 1% of the land · typical ID town 2% · U.S. 4%DTrails0.0 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (0 mi) · ID 0.7 · U.S. 0.4DPark land6.2 acres of park per 1,000 residents (8 acres) · ID 6 · U.S. 13CParks close to homeVirtually all residents within a half mile of a park · ID 87% · U.S. 72%A+
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 26%
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Few Idaho towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Hansen’s under 1% is ahead of 3% of Idaho towns, while its trails per square mile lead 1% of them.
NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Hansen. 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 D 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
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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk
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Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.
Things to do
1 places to go in Hansen
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
Playgrounds in Hansen
1 playground without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see it.
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
2Baseball
1Football
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
When to get out
The best walking months in Hansen: April to June and 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) | 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) | 38 | 43 | 53 | 60 | 70 | 79 | 89 | 87 | 78 | 63 | 48 | 38 |
| Rain (in) | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.1 |
July is the driest month (0.3 in) and the warmest (highs of 89 °F). 1.5 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 89 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Hansen →
Questions about parks and trails in Hansen
How much of Hansen 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.
Are dogs allowed on Hansen’s trails?
Hansen Park doesn’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.
Is there public land near Hansen?
37,635 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Hansen or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 8 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Hansen have?
Ahead of 26% 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 Hansen 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 →