Veterans Park
Park
3 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0DOutdoors
Outdoors in Mountain View
Few parks or trails are on the map in Mountain View
3 acres are parks and preserves, 1.2 per 1,000 residents. 34% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 1.1 miles of mapped trail cross Mountain View, 0.3 per square mile of land.
Ahead of 14% of U.S. towns · #221 of 247 in Missouri. What drives it
Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 3.8 sq mi of land
Trails
1.1 mi
0.3 per sq mi of land
Park land
3 ac
1.2 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
34%
of residents within ½ mile
Outdoors grade
How much outdoors does Mountain View have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Mountain View is ahead of 14% of U.S. towns, #221 of 247 in Missouri. Trail miles hold the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.
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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Mountain View’s overall grade.
Conserved landunder 1% of the land · typical MO town 2% · U.S. 4%DTrails0.3 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (1 mi) · MO 0.3 · U.S. 0.4B−Park land1.2 acres of park per 1,000 residents (3 acres) · MO 11 · U.S. 13C−Parks close to home34% of residents within a half mile of a park · MO 74% · U.S. 72%C
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 14%
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Missouri towns of 2,500+ (247)Ahead of 11%
Few Missouri towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Mountain View’s under 1% is ahead of 4% of Missouri towns, while its trails per square mile lead 52% of them.
NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Mountain View. 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
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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.
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
3Baseball
2Tennis
1Football
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
When to get out
June is the best month for walking in Mountain View
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 | 14.5 | 13.6 | 12.4 | 11.2 | 10.1 | 9.6 |
| High (°F) | 44 | 49 | 59 | 69 | 76 | 84 | 88 | 87 | 80 | 70 | 57 | 47 |
| Rain (in) | 2.8 | 2.9 | 4.5 | 5.2 | 5.5 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.3 | 3.2 |
January is the driest month (2.8 in) and July the warmest (highs of 88 °F). 5.5 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 88 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Mountain View →
Questions about parks and trails in Mountain View
How much of Mountain View 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 Mountain View’s trails?
Veterans Park doesn’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.
Is there public land near Mountain View?
4,922 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Mountain View or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 3 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Mountain View have?
Ahead of 14% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #221 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 Mountain View 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 →