Photo: TheLionHasSeen · CC BY-SA 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Greenwood
6% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 7 acres are parks and preserves, 2.2 per 1,000 residents.
Ahead of 5% of U.S. towns · #152 of 162 in Louisiana. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Greenwood?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Greenwood have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Greenwood is ahead of 5% of U.S. towns, #152 of 162 in Louisiana. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; park acres per resident come closest.
Few Louisiana towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Greenwood’s under 1% is ahead of 14% of Louisiana towns, while its trails per square mile lead 8% of them.
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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7 conserved acres
under 1% of Greenwood’s land. Who manages Greenwood’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Department Of Transportation Area State Recreation Area | Other state land | 7 | Open |
1 places to go in Greenwood
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
1 dog park without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see it.
3 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The best walking months in Greenwood: 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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 10.2 | 11.0 | 11.9 | 12.9 | 13.8 | 14.3 | 14.1 | 13.3 | 12.3 | 11.3 | 10.4 | 10.0 |
| High (°F) | 58 | 62 | 69 | 77 | 84 | 90 | 94 | 94 | 88 | 78 | 67 | 59 |
| Rain (in) | 4.5 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 3.5 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 5.0 |
August is the driest month (3.2 in) and the warmest (highs of 94 °F). 5.1 inches fall in March, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 94 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Greenwood →
Greenwood and its neighbors
Greenwood 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwood | under 1% | under 0.1 | 2 | 6% | D |
| Shreveport | 2% | 0.3 | 8 | 48% | C+ |
The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.
Questions about parks and trails in Greenwood
How much of Greenwood 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 Greenwood?
754 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Greenwood or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 7 of them inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Greenwood have?
Ahead of 5% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #152 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 Greenwood 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 →