Photo: Chris Litherland · CC BY-SA 3.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Gueydan
3 acres are parks and preserves, 2.3 per 1,000 residents. 82% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 0.4 miles of mapped trail cross Gueydan, 0.4 per square mile of land.
Ahead of 30% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Gueydan?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Gueydan have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Gueydan is ahead of 30% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.
Few Louisiana towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Gueydan’s under 1% is ahead of 5% of Louisiana towns, while its trails per square mile lead 79% 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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1 places to go in Gueydan
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
1 playground without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see it.
0.0 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
1 place on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service). The map also marks 1 historic points from OpenStreetMap: plaques, memorials and old buildings.
The best walking months in Gueydan: 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) | 10.4 | 11.1 | 11.9 | 12.9 | 13.6 | 14.1 | 13.9 | 13.2 | 12.3 | 11.4 | 10.6 | 10.2 |
| High (°F) | 62 | 66 | 73 | 79 | 85 | 90 | 92 | 92 | 89 | 81 | 71 | 64 |
| Rain (in) | 5.8 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 4.6 | 5.2 | 6.4 | 6.3 | 6.8 | 5.4 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.7 |
March is the driest month (3.5 in) and August the warmest (highs of 92 °F). 6.8 inches fall in August, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 92 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Gueydan →
Questions about parks and trails in Gueydan
How much of Gueydan 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 Gueydan?
10 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Gueydan or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 3 of them inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Gueydan have?
Ahead of 30% 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 Gueydan 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 →