Bank of Ville Platte · Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Ville Platte
28 acres are parks and preserves, 4.5 per 1,000 residents. 0.9 miles of mapped trail cross Ville Platte, 0.2 per square mile of land. 61% of residents live within a half mile of a park.
Ahead of 29% of U.S. towns · #77 of 162 in Louisiana. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Ville Platte?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Ville Platte have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Ville Platte is ahead of 29% of U.S. towns, #77 of 162 in Louisiana. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; the share of residents near a park comes closest.
Few Louisiana towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Ville Platte’s 1% is ahead of 48% of Louisiana towns, while its trails per square mile lead 61% 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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24 conserved acres
1% of Ville Platte’s land. Who manages Ville Platte’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chief Romeo Hargrove City Park Local Park | Town or city | 12 | Open |
| Northside Park Local Park | Town or city | 11 | Open |
| Hope Park Local Park | Town or city | 1 | Open |
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.
5 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The best walking months in Ville Platte: 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 | 13.7 | 14.1 | 13.9 | 13.2 | 12.3 | 11.4 | 10.6 | 10.2 |
| High (°F) | 61 | 65 | 72 | 78 | 85 | 90 | 92 | 92 | 89 | 81 | 70 | 63 |
| Rain (in) | 6.6 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 5.6 | 5.3 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 5.2 |
March is the driest month (4.4 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 Ville Platte →
Questions about parks and trails in Ville Platte
How much of Ville Platte is conserved land?
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 Ville Platte?
7,185 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Ville Platte or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 28 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Ville Platte have?
Ahead of 29% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #77 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 Ville Platte 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 →