Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Beattyville
29% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 0.3 miles of mapped trail cross Beattyville, 0.1 per square mile of land. 29 acres are parks and preserves, 14 per 1,000 residents.
Ahead of 27% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Beattyville?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Beattyville have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Beattyville is ahead of 27% of U.S. towns. Park acres per resident hold the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.
Few Kentucky towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Beattyville’s 1% is ahead of 31% of Kentucky towns, while its trails per square mile lead 35% 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
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Pick a walk
Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.
11 conserved acres
1% of Beattyville’s land. Who manages Beattyville’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Happy Top Recreation Area Local Park | County | 11 | Open |
1 places to go in Beattyville
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
1 scenic view without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see it.
2 lakes & rivers
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.
3 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The best walking months in Beattyville: April and August
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 | 11.9 | 13.1 | 14.2 | 14.7 | 14.5 | 13.6 | 12.4 | 11.1 | 10.1 | 9.6 |
| High (°F) | 44 | 49 | 58 | 69 | 77 | 84 | 87 | 86 | 81 | 70 | 58 | 48 |
| Rain (in) | 3.7 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 4.3 |
November is the driest month (3.2 in) and July the warmest (highs of 87 °F). 5.3 inches fall in July, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 87 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Beattyville →
Questions about parks and trails in Beattyville
How much of Beattyville is conserved land?
1% of its land, against a typical 2% for a Kentucky town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.
Are dogs allowed on Beattyville’s trails?
Happy Top and Beattyville Park don’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.
Is there public land near Beattyville?
19,141 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Beattyville or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 29 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Beattyville have?
Ahead of 27% 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 Beattyville 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 →