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FEMA - 1594 - Photograph by Butch DuCote taken on 06-20-2001 in LouisianaPhoto: Butch DuCote · Public domain
D−Outdoors
Outdoors in Chackbay

Few parks or trails are on the map in Chackbay

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

Ahead of 3% of U.S. towns · #159 of 162 in Louisiana. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
44 acres · of 27.7 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
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Chackbay have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Chackbay is ahead of 3% of U.S. towns, #159 of 162 in Louisiana. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; conserved land comes closest.

D−
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Chackbay’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 3%
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Louisiana towns of 2,500+ (162)Ahead of 2%

Few Louisiana towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Chackbay’s under 1% is ahead of 19% of Louisiana towns, while its trails per square mile lead 8% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Chackbay. 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
Who protects it

44 conserved acres

under 1% of Chackbay’s land. Who manages Chackbay’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Other state land44 ac
State Resource Management Area · 44 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Division Of State Lands
State Resource Management Area
Other state land44Open
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
1Baseball

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

When to get out

The best walking months in Chackbay: April and May

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)10.411.111.912.913.614.113.913.212.311.410.610.2
High (°F)646773798690919288817266
Rain (in)5.44.14.24.75.67.27.07.15.64.33.94.6

November is the driest month (3.9 in) and August the warmest (highs of 92 °F). 7.2 inches fall in June, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 92 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Chackbay →

Questions about parks and trails in Chackbay

How much of Chackbay is conserved land?

under 1% of its land, against a typical 1% for a Louisiana town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Chackbay?

479 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Chackbay or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 42 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Chackbay have?

Ahead of 3% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #159 of 162 in Louisiana. 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 Chackbay 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 →