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A street in Barnhart MissouriPhoto: Johnhochi · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Outdoors in Barnhart

Few parks or trails are on the map in Barnhart

27% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 23 acres are parks and preserves, 3.9 per 1,000 residents.

Ahead of 10% of U.S. towns · #229 of 247 in Missouri. What drives it

Conserved land
1%
23 acres · of 5.0 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
23 ac
3.9 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
27%
of residents within ½ mile
Lakes & rivers
1
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Barnhart have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Barnhart is ahead of 10% of U.S. towns, #229 of 247 in Missouri. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; park acres per resident come closest.

D
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Barnhart’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 10%
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Missouri towns of 2,500+ (247)Ahead of 7%

Few Missouri towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Barnhart’s 1% is ahead of 23% of Missouri towns, while its trails per square mile lead 6% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Barnhart. 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

23 conserved acres

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

County23 ac
Local Park · 23 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Ball Fields
Local Park
County23Open
Trails & water

1 lakes & rivers

Lakes & rivers tap for 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
1Tennis
1Basketball

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

When to get out

The walking year in Barnhart

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)9.810.711.813.114.214.814.613.612.411.110.09.5
High (°F)414757687785898881705645
Rain (in)2.62.43.64.85.14.24.13.43.53.23.52.8

February is the driest month (2.4 in) and July the warmest (highs of 89 °F). 5.1 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 89 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Barnhart →

Next door

Barnhart and its neighbors

Barnhart 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
Barnhart1%under 0.1427%D
Pevely1%under 0.1767%C

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

Questions about parks and trails in Barnhart

How much of Barnhart is conserved land?

1% of its land, against a typical 2% for a Missouri town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Barnhart?

4,781 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Barnhart or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 23 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Barnhart have?

Ahead of 10% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #229 of 247 in Missouri. 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 Barnhart 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 →