Few parks or trails are on the map in Kissee Mills
24% of Kissee Mills’ land is conserved, about 1,332 acres.
Ahead of 15% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Kissee Mills?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Kissee Mills have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Kissee Mills is ahead of 15% of U.S. towns. Conserved land holds the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.
Few Missouri towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Kissee Mills’ 24% is ahead of 99% of Missouri towns, while its trails per square mile lead 6% of them.
Water is 6% of Kissee Mills’ area (1 of 9 square miles), so every share here is of land; over land and water together, the conserved share would read 22%.
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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1,332 conserved acres
24% of Kissee Mills’ land. Water is left out: Kissee Mills has 8.8 square miles of land and 0.5 of water, so the share counts land only. Who manages Kissee Mills’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bull Shoals Recreation Area Recreation Management Area | Army Corps of Engineers | 1,332 | Open |
June is the best month for walking in Kissee Mills
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) | 9.9 | 10.8 | 11.9 | 13.1 | 14.1 | 14.7 | 14.4 | 13.5 | 12.4 | 11.2 | 10.2 | 9.7 |
| High (°F) | 46 | 51 | 60 | 70 | 77 | 86 | 90 | 89 | 82 | 71 | 59 | 48 |
| Rain (in) | 2.7 | 2.5 | 4.2 | 4.9 | 5.5 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 2.9 |
February is the driest month (2.5 in) and July the warmest (highs of 90 °F). 5.5 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 90 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Kissee Mills →
Questions about parks and trails in Kissee Mills
How much of Kissee Mills is conserved land?
24% 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 Kissee Mills?
50,629 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Kissee Mills or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 1,340 of them inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Kissee Mills have?
Ahead of 15% 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 Kissee Mills 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 →