Joseph Holt House and Chapel · Photo: Hunter Hawley · CC BY-SA 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Cloverport
26 acres are parks and preserves, 23 per 1,000 residents. 76% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 2% of Cloverport’s land is conserved, about 23 acres.
Ahead of 39% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Cloverport?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Cloverport have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Cloverport is ahead of 39% of U.S. towns. Park acres per resident hold the grade up; trail miles pull it down.
Few Kentucky towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Cloverport’s 2% is ahead of 65% of Kentucky towns, while its trails per square mile lead 8% of them.
Water is 5% of Cloverport’s area (0 of 2 square miles), so every share here is of land; over land and water together, the conserved share would read 2%.
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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23 conserved acres
2% of Cloverport’s land. Water is left out: Cloverport has 1.5 square miles of land and 0.1 of water, so the share counts land only. Who manages Cloverport’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Dock Local Park | Town or city | 14 | Open |
| Cloverport City Park Local Park | Town or city | 9 | Open |
2 places to go in Cloverport
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.
1 boat launch without a name on the map.
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.
4 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The walking year in Cloverport
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 | 14.5 | 13.6 | 12.4 | 11.1 | 10.1 | 9.6 |
| High (°F) | 43 | 48 | 57 | 69 | 77 | 85 | 88 | 87 | 81 | 70 | 57 | 47 |
| Rain (in) | 3.7 | 3.7 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 5.5 | 5.0 | 4.1 | 3.2 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.4 |
August is the driest month (3.2 in) and July the warmest (highs of 88 °F). 5.5 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 88 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Cloverport →
Questions about parks and trails in Cloverport
How much of Cloverport is conserved land?
2% 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.
Is there public land near Cloverport?
10,253 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Cloverport or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 26 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Cloverport have?
Ahead of 39% 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 Cloverport 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 →