Photo: FloNight (Sydney Poore) and Russell Poore · CC BY-SA 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Greenup
4 acres are parks and preserves, 5.1 per 1,000 residents. 75% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 0.4 miles of mapped trail cross Greenup, 0.2 per square mile of land.
Ahead of 30% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Greenup?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Greenup have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Greenup is ahead of 30% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.
Few Kentucky towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Greenup’s under 1% is ahead of 20% of Kentucky towns, while its trails per square mile lead 40% of them.
Water is 18% of Greenup’s area (0 of 3 square miles), so every share here is of land; over land and water together, the conserved share would read under 1%.
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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4 conserved acres
under 1% of Greenup’s land. Water is left out: Greenup has 2.1 square miles of land and 0.5 of water, so the share counts land only. Who manages Greenup’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenup City Park Local Park | Town or city | 4 | Open |
2 places to go in Greenup
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
Plus 1 boat launch 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.
11 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The best walking months in Greenup: April, June 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) | 9.7 | 10.7 | 11.8 | 13.2 | 14.3 | 14.8 | 14.6 | 13.7 | 12.4 | 11.1 | 10.0 | 9.5 |
| High (°F) | 42 | 47 | 56 | 69 | 77 | 84 | 87 | 86 | 80 | 69 | 57 | 46 |
| Rain (in) | 3.1 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 3.5 |
November is the driest month (2.6 in) and July the warmest (highs of 87 °F). 4.5 inches fall in July, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 87 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Greenup →
Greenup and its neighbors
Greenup 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenup | under 1% | 0.2 | 5 | 75% | C |
The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.
Questions about parks and trails in Greenup
How much of Greenup is conserved land?
under 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.
Is there public land near Greenup?
25,306 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Greenup or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 4 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Greenup have?
Ahead of 30% 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 Greenup 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 →