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Gold Dust Hotel Fredonia KansasPhoto: Art davis · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Outdoors in Fredonia

Fredonia has 9 acres of parks, 4.5 for every 1,000 residents

93% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 0.2 miles of mapped trail cross Fredonia, 0.1 per square mile of land.

Ahead of 26% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 2.4 sq mi of land
Trails
0.2 mi
0.1 per sq mi of land
Park land
9 ac
4.5 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
93%
of residents within ½ mile
Highest peak
1,047 ft
South Mound

What kind of outdoors town is Fredonia?

Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Fredonia have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Fredonia is ahead of 26% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Fredonia’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 26%
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Few Kansas towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Fredonia’s under 1% is ahead of 5% of Kansas towns, while its trails per square mile lead 25% of 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.

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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Pick a walk

Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.

Rotary Park

Park
4 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yetWebsite ↗

South Mound Park

Park
3 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yetWebsite ↗

Polk Street Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yetWebsite ↗

ABC Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yetWebsite ↗
Things to do

2 places to go in Fredonia

Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.

Peaks in Fredonia
South Mound1,047 ft elevation · In South Mound Park
Directions
Trails & water

1 named trail

Named trails
Osage Cuestas Trail0.2 mi
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
5Baseball
3Basketball
2Tennis
1Football

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

History along the way

3 places on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).

History →
Dr. A. C. Flack HouseBuilding · listed 1989
About it
US Post Office-FredoniaBuilding · listed 1989
About it
Gold Dust HotelBuilding · listed 1991
About it
When to get out

The walking year in Fredonia

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)9.810.811.913.114.214.714.513.612.411.110.19.6
High (°F)444959697786919082715846
Rain (in)1.11.52.74.35.95.74.33.53.93.52.31.7

January is the driest month (1.1 in) and July the warmest (highs of 91 °F). 5.9 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 91 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Fredonia →

Questions about parks and trails in Fredonia

How much of Fredonia 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.

Are dogs allowed on Fredonia’s trails?

Rotary Park and South Mound Park don’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.

Is there public land near Fredonia?

21 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Fredonia or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 9 of them inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Fredonia 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 Fredonia neighbors.

Town Square →
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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 →