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Downtown Owingsville, KentuckyPhoto: W.marsh · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Outdoors in Owingsville

Few parks or trails are on the map in Owingsville

60% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

Ahead of 8% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 2.5 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Near a park
60%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Owingsville?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Owingsville have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Owingsville is ahead of 8% of U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; the share of residents near a park comes closest.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Owingsville’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 8%
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Few Kentucky towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Owingsville’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 Owingsville. 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 range from D− to 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 Owingsville

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

Boat launches in Owingsville
Slate Creek at Owinsgsville VFW
Directions
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
1Football
1Tennis

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

History along the way

6 places on the National Register

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

History →
Bourbon Iron WorksStructure · listed 1976
About it
Col. Thomas Deye Owings HouseBuilding · listed 1978
About it
Owingsville Commercial District and Courthouse SquareDistrict · listed 1978
About it
Myrtle HillBuilding · listed 1982
About it
Confederate Monument in OwingsvilleObject · listed 1997
About it
J.J. Nesbitt HouseBuilding · listed 2010
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Owingsville: 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)9.810.711.813.114.214.814.613.612.411.110.09.5
High (°F)424756687684878680695646
Rain (in)3.53.54.64.55.14.75.33.73.83.33.24.1

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 Owingsville →

Questions about parks and trails in Owingsville

How much of Owingsville 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 Owingsville?

10,652 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Owingsville or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Owingsville have?

Ahead of 8% 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 Owingsville 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 →