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Outdoors in Cuba

Few parks or trails are on the map in Cuba

1 acre is park or preserve, 1.1 per 1,000 residents. 64% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

Ahead of 12% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
1 acre · of 0.5 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
1 ac
1.1 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
64%
of residents within ½ mile
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Cuba have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Cuba is ahead of 12% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; trail miles pull it down.

D
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Cuba’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 12%
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NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Cuba. 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

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
Who protects it

1 conserved acres

under 1% of Cuba’s land. Who manages Cuba’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Town or city1 ac
Local Park · 1 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Baseball Park
Local Park
Town or city1Open
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
1Football

Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.

When to get out

August is the best month for walking in Cuba

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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)9.610.611.813.214.415.014.813.812.411.09.99.3
High (°F)333851647483868478655038
Rain (in)1.91.92.54.04.94.74.13.73.73.22.62.1

January is the driest month (1.9 in) and July the warmest (highs of 86 °F). 4.9 inches fall in May, the wettest month. The climate in Cuba →

Questions about parks and trails in Cuba

How much of Cuba is conserved land?

under 1% of its land, against a typical 4% for an Illinois town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Cuba?

7,664 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Cuba or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 1 of them inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Cuba have?

Ahead of 12% 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 Cuba 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 →