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D−Outdoors
Outdoors in Midway

Few parks or trails are on the map in Midway

OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Midway yet. Know a trail or a town park? Anyone can add it to OpenStreetMap, and it shows up here on the next refresh.

Behind most U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 1.4 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Near a park
under 1%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Midway?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Midway have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Midway is behind most U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; conserved land comes closest.

D−
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Midway’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Behind most
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Few Kentucky towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Midway’s under 1% is ahead of 5% of Kentucky towns, while its trails per square mile lead 8% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Midway. OpenStreetMap is mapped by volunteers and coverage varies from town to town, so a town with unmapped parks scores low on them.
How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would still be D−. 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.

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

1 places to go in Midway

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

Dog parks in Midway

1 dog park without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see it.

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
4Tennis

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

History along the way

13 places on the National Register

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

History →
Pinkerton HallBuilding · listed 1974
About it
John Graham HouseBuilding · listed 1978
About it
Midway Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1978
About it
Merritt Williams HouseBuilding · listed 1979
About it
Lewis Payne HouseBuilding · listed 1982
About it
Patterson, Joseph, QuartersBuilding · listed 1983
About it
Stone House at Fisher's MillBuilding · listed 1983
About it
Cooper HouseBuilding · listed 1994
About it
E. W. Taylor HouseBuilding · listed 1994
About it
ElkwoodBuilding · listed 1994
About it
Leavy Tobacco BarnBuilding · listed 1994
About it
Richard Cole HomesteadBuilding · listed 1994
About it

1 more on the History page.

When to get out

August is the best month for walking in Midway

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)9.810.711.813.114.214.814.613.612.411.110.09.5
High (°F)424756677683878680695646
Rain (in)3.63.64.64.85.44.95.03.73.73.83.44.1

November is the driest month (3.4 in) and July the warmest (highs of 87 °F). 5.4 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 87 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Midway →

Questions about parks and trails in Midway

How much of Midway 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 Midway?

4,815 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Midway or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Midway have?

Behind most 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 Midway neighbors.

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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 →