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Desfossé House Mansura LouisianaPhoto: Bart Everson · CC BY 2.0
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Outdoors in Mansura

Few parks or trails are on the map in Mansura

4 acres are parks and preserves, 3.3 per 1,000 residents. 63% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

Ahead of 13% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
4 acres · of 2.9 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
4 ac
3.3 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
63%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Mansura?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Mansura have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Mansura is ahead of 13% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; trail miles pull it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Mansura’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 13%
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Few Louisiana towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Mansura’s under 1% is ahead of 18% of Louisiana towns, while its trails per square mile lead 8% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Mansura. 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

4 conserved acres

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

Town or city4 ac
Local Park · 4 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Mansura Town Hall Park
Local Park
Town or city4Open
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
3Tennis

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

History along the way

5 places on the National Register

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

History →
Dr. Jules Charles Des Fosse HouseBuilding · listed 1976
About it
Dr. Thomas A. Roy Sr. HouseBuilding · listed 1985
About it
St. Paul Lutheran ChurchBuilding · listed 1990
About it
Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company DepotBuilding · listed 1996
About it
Central Bank and Trust Company, MansuraBuilding · listed 2005
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Mansura: 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)10.311.011.912.913.714.214.013.312.311.410.510.1
High (°F)606472788590929389807062
Rain (in)6.35.24.65.24.64.94.64.54.24.35.25.6

September is the driest month (4.2 in) and August the warmest (highs of 93 °F). 6.3 inches fall in January, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 93 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Mansura →

Questions about parks and trails in Mansura

How much of Mansura 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 Mansura?

219 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Mansura or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 4 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Mansura have?

Ahead of 13% 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 Mansura 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 →