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Outdoors in Mamou

Few parks or trails are on the map in Mamou

0.9 miles of mapped trail cross Mamou, 0.6 per square mile of land. 14 acres are parks and preserves, 4.7 per 1,000 residents. 61% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

Ahead of 33% of U.S. towns · #62 of 162 in Louisiana. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
1 acre · of 1.4 sq mi of land
Trails
0.9 mi
0.6 per sq mi of land
Park land
14 ac
4.7 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
61%
of residents within ½ mile
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Mamou have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Mamou is ahead of 33% of U.S. towns, #62 of 162 in Louisiana. Trail miles hold the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.

C
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Mamou’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 33%
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Louisiana towns of 2,500+ (162)Ahead of 62%

Few Louisiana towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Mamou’s under 1% is ahead of 12% of Louisiana towns, while its trails per square mile lead 89% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Mamou. 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 C− to B−. 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

1 conserved acres

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

Town or city1 ac
Local Park · 1 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Unknown Park
Local Park
Town or city1Open
Things to do

8 places to go in Mamou

Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.

Playgrounds in Mamou

8 playgrounds without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.

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
3Basketball
2Tennis
1Football

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

When to get out

The best walking months in Mamou: 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)10.411.111.912.913.714.113.913.212.311.410.610.2
High (°F)616572788590929289807063
Rain (in)6.64.64.24.84.85.65.34.64.84.64.85.2

March is the driest month (4.2 in) and August the warmest (highs of 92 °F). 6.6 inches fall in January, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 92 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Mamou →

Questions about parks and trails in Mamou

How much of Mamou 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 Mamou?

273 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Mamou or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 14 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Mamou have?

Ahead of 33% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #62 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 Mamou neighbors.

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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 →