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Main Street, Blooming Prairie, MNPhoto: Myotus · CC BY 4.0
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Outdoors in Blooming Prairie

99% of residents live within a half mile of a park in Blooming Prairie

0.1 miles of mapped trail cross Blooming Prairie, 0.1 per square mile of land. 17 acres are parks and preserves, 9.3 per 1,000 residents.

Ahead of 34% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 1.4 sq mi of land
Trails
0.1 mi
0.1 per sq mi of land
Park land
17 ac
9.3 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
99%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Blooming Prairie?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Blooming Prairie have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Blooming Prairie is ahead of 34% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Blooming Prairie’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 34%
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NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Blooming Prairie. 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
Things to do

3 places to go in Blooming Prairie

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

Public pools in Blooming Prairie
Blooming Prairie Swimming Pool
Directions
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
5Baseball
3Volleyball
2Tennis
1Football
1Hockey rinks
1Basketball

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 →
Blooming Prairie Commercial Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1994
About it
When to get out

The walking year in Blooming Prairie

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)9.210.411.813.414.715.415.114.012.410.99.68.9
High (°F)222740556878817872584128
Rain (in)1.01.12.03.64.75.54.64.33.62.61.71.3

January is the driest month (1.0 in) and July the warmest (highs of 81 °F). 5.5 inches fall in June, the wettest month. The climate in Blooming Prairie →

Next door

Blooming Prairie and its neighbors

Blooming Prairie has the second most mapped trails of the 2 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.

TownConserved
of land
Trail mi
per sq mi
Park acres
per 1,000
Near a park
½ mile
Outdoors
Blooming Prairieunder 1%0.1999%C
Blooming Prairie Township— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.

Questions about parks and trails in Blooming Prairie

How much of Blooming Prairie is conserved land?

under 1% of its land, against a typical 5% for a Minnesota town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Blooming Prairie?

23 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Blooming Prairie or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 17 of them inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Blooming Prairie have?

Ahead of 34% 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 Blooming Prairie 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 →