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Outdoors in Clear Creek Township

Few parks or trails are on the map in Clear Creek Township

83 acres are parks and preserves, 38 per 1,000 residents. 4% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 2% of Clear Creek Township’s land is conserved, about 387 acres.

Ahead of 22% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
2%
387 acres · of 35.7 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
83 ac
38 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
4%
of residents within ½ mile
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Clear Creek Township have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Clear Creek Township is ahead of 22% of U.S. towns. Park acres per resident hold the grade up; trail miles pull it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Clear Creek Township’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 22%
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Few Indiana towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Clear Creek Township’s 2% is ahead of 51% of Indiana towns, while its trails per square mile lead 6% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Clear Creek Township. 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

387 conserved acres

2% of Clear Creek Township’s land. Who manages Clear Creek Township’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Private owners305 ac
Town or city82 ac
Private Park · 305 acState Conservation Area · 82 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Lafontaine Golf Club
Private Park
Private owners153Open
Clear Creek Golf Course
Private Park
Private owners152Open
Thornhill Nature Preserve
State Conservation Area
Town or city82Open
When to get out

September is the best month for walking in Clear Creek Township

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)9.510.611.813.314.515.114.813.812.411.09.89.2
High (°F)333748617281848276644938
Rain (in)2.62.02.63.94.54.64.34.03.13.03.12.4

February is the driest month (2.0 in) and July the warmest (highs of 84 °F). 4.6 inches fall in June, the wettest month. The climate in Clear Creek Township →

Next door

Clear Creek Township and its neighbors

Tap a town to see its outdoors.

TownConserved
of land
Trail mi
per sq mi
Park acres
per 1,000
Near a park
½ mile
Outdoors
Clear Creek Township2%under 0.1384%C−
Huntington Township7%0.13072%B
Jackson Township2%under 0.11040%C−

The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.

Questions about parks and trails in Clear Creek Township

How much of Clear Creek Township is conserved land?

2% of its land, against a typical 2% for an Indiana town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Clear Creek Township?

4,548 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Clear Creek Township or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 83 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Clear Creek Township have?

Ahead of 22% 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 Clear Creek Township 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 →