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C+Outdoors
Outdoors in Minorca

Few parks or trails are on the map in Minorca

60 acres are parks and preserves, 42 per 1,000 residents. 28% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 0.8 miles of mapped trail cross Minorca, 0.2 per square mile of land.

Ahead of 43% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
2%
60 acres · of 4.5 sq mi of land
Trails
0.8 mi
0.2 per sq mi of land
Park land
60 ac
42 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
28%
of residents within ½ mile
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Minorca have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Minorca is ahead of 43% of U.S. towns. Park acres per resident hold the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Minorca’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 43%
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Few Louisiana towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Minorca’s 2% is ahead of 78% of Louisiana towns, while its trails per square mile lead 56% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Minorca. 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

60 conserved acres

2% of Minorca’s land. Who manages Minorca’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Regional agency60 ac
Local Park · 60 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Concordia Recreation Park
Local Park
Regional agency60Open
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
12Tennis

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

History along the way

1 place on the National Register

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

History →
Tacony Plantation HouseBuilding · listed 1979
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Minorca: 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)10.311.011.912.913.714.214.013.312.311.310.510.1
High (°F)596371778590929389806961
Rain (in)6.25.45.34.74.64.44.64.53.74.05.15.3

September is the driest month (3.7 in) and August the warmest (highs of 93 °F). 6.2 inches fall in January, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 93 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Minorca →

Questions about parks and trails in Minorca

How much of Minorca is conserved land?

2% 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 Minorca?

557 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Minorca or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 60 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Minorca have?

Ahead of 43% 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 Minorca 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 →