Photo: Chris Light · CC BY-SA 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Ellinwood
93% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 0.2 miles of mapped trail cross Ellinwood, 0.1 per square mile of land. 16 acres are parks and preserves, 7.1 per 1,000 residents.
Ahead of 32% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Ellinwood?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Ellinwood have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Ellinwood is ahead of 32% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.
Few Kansas towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Ellinwood’s under 1% is ahead of 5% of Kansas towns, while its trails per square mile lead 40% 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
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it.
1 places to go in Ellinwood
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
1 playground without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see it.
0.0 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
2 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
April is the best month for walking in Ellinwood
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) | 9.8 | 10.7 | 11.8 | 13.1 | 14.2 | 14.8 | 14.6 | 13.6 | 12.4 | 11.1 | 10.0 | 9.5 |
| High (°F) | 43 | 47 | 57 | 67 | 77 | 87 | 92 | 90 | 82 | 70 | 56 | 44 |
| Rain (in) | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 |
January is the driest month (0.7 in) and July the warmest (highs of 92 °F). 4.3 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 92 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Ellinwood →
Ellinwood and its neighbors
Ellinwood has the second most mapped trails of the 2 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.
| Town | Conserved of land | Trail mi per sq mi | Park acres per 1,000 | Near a park ½ mile | Outdoors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellinwood | under 1% | 0.1 | 7 | 93% | C |
| Lakin Township | — not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town | ||||
The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.
Questions about parks and trails in Ellinwood
How much of Ellinwood is conserved land?
under 1% of its land, against a typical 2% for a Kansas town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.
Is there public land near Ellinwood?
189 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Ellinwood or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 16 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Ellinwood have?
Ahead of 32% 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 Ellinwood 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 →