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Outdoors in Marthasville

Virtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park in Marthasville

Virtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park. 9 acres are parks and preserves, 3.8 per 1,000 residents.

Ahead of 25% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 0.9 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
9 ac
3.8 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
99%+
of residents within ½ mile
Bike routes
0.7 mi
0.7 mi paths

What kind of outdoors town is Marthasville?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Marthasville have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Marthasville is ahead of 25% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; trail miles pull it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Marthasville’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 25%
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Few Missouri towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Marthasville’s under 1% is ahead of 10% of Missouri towns, while its trails per square mile lead 6% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Marthasville. 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.

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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Pick a walk

Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.

Wessel Park

Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the trailhead

Charette Park

Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet

Marthasville City Park

Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the trailhead

Lichtenberg Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the trailhead
Things to do

2 places to go in Marthasville

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

Playgrounds in Marthasville

2 playgrounds without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.

Biking & sports

0.7 miles of bike routes

Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

0.7 mi
off-road bike paths
Courts & fields
2Baseball
1Basketball

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

History along the way

4 places on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service). The map also marks 1 historic points from OpenStreetMap: plaques, memorials and old buildings.

History →
Flanders Callaway HouseBuilding · listed 1969
About it
Starke-Meinershagen-Boeke Rural Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1998
About it
Herman H. Fortmann BuildingBuilding · listed 2006
About it
Marthasville Hardware BuildingBuilding · listed 2008
About it
When to get out

The walking year in Marthasville

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)9.710.711.813.214.314.814.613.712.411.110.09.5
High (°F)404656687685898880695544
Rain (in)2.52.33.44.74.84.34.13.93.63.23.42.6

February is the driest month (2.3 in) and July the warmest (highs of 89 °F). 4.8 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 89 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Marthasville →

Questions about parks and trails in Marthasville

How much of Marthasville is conserved land?

under 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.

Are dogs allowed on Marthasville’s trails?

Wessel Park and Charette Park don’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.

Where can I bike in Marthasville?

0.7 miles of bike routes are on the map: 0.7 of off-road paths.

Is there public land near Marthasville?

1,089 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Marthasville or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 9 of them inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Marthasville have?

Ahead of 25% 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 Marthasville 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 →