Lefort House · Photo: Z28scrambler · CC BY-SA 3.0Lafourche Crossing has 8.7 miles of mapped trails, 2.1 for every square mile of land
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Ahead of 16% of U.S. towns · #117 of 162 in Louisiana. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Lafourche Crossing?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Lafourche Crossing have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Lafourche Crossing is ahead of 16% of U.S. towns, #117 of 162 in Louisiana. Trail miles hold the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.
Few Louisiana towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Lafourche Crossing’s under 1% is ahead of 5% of Louisiana towns, while its trails per square mile lead 99% 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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2 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The best walking months in Lafourche Crossing: 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 | 14.0 | 13.9 | 13.2 | 12.3 | 11.4 | 10.6 | 10.2 |
| High (°F) | 64 | 68 | 73 | 79 | 86 | 90 | 92 | 92 | 88 | 81 | 72 | 66 |
| Rain (in) | 5.3 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 5.4 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 5.8 | 4.2 | 3.8 | 4.5 |
November is the driest month (3.8 in) and July the warmest (highs of 92 °F). 7.2 inches fall in July, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 92 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Lafourche Crossing →
Questions about parks and trails in Lafourche Crossing
How much of Lafourche Crossing 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 Lafourche Crossing?
589 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Lafourche Crossing or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Lafourche Crossing have?
Ahead of 16% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #117 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 Lafourche Crossing 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 →