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Revised photo, town hall in Delhi, LA IMG 7337 1Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Outdoors in Delhi

Few parks or trails are on the map in Delhi

11 acres are parks and preserves, 4.4 per 1,000 residents. 35% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

Ahead of 11% of U.S. towns · #136 of 162 in Louisiana. What drives it

Conserved land
1%
10 acres · of 2.9 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
11 ac
4.4 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
35%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Delhi?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Delhi have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Delhi is ahead of 11% of U.S. towns, #136 of 162 in Louisiana. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; the share of residents near a park comes closest.

D
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Delhi’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 11%
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Louisiana towns of 2,500+ (162)Ahead of 16%

Few Louisiana towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Delhi’s 1% is ahead of 33% of Louisiana towns, while its trails per square mile lead 8% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Delhi. 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 C−. 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

10 conserved acres

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

Town or city10 ac
Local Recreation Area · 10 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Unknown Ball Park
Local Recreation Area
Town or city10Open
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
6Baseball
2Tennis

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

History along the way

3 places on the National Register

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

History →
Miles-Hanna HouseBuilding · listed 1996
About it
Downtown Delhi Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1997
About it
Delhi Municipal Baseball ParkSite · listed 2000
About it
When to get out

May is the best month for walking in Delhi

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)10.211.011.912.913.814.314.113.312.311.310.410.0
High (°F)576169778490939389796859
Rain (in)5.55.15.36.14.54.14.13.93.34.54.65.5

September is the driest month (3.3 in) and August the warmest (highs of 93 °F). 6.1 inches fall in April, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 93 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Delhi →

Questions about parks and trails in Delhi

How much of Delhi is conserved land?

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 Delhi?

33 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Delhi or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 11 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Delhi have?

Ahead of 11% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #136 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 Delhi 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 →