Few parks or trails are on the map in Bay Springs
6 acres are parks and preserves, 2.9 per 1,000 residents. 1.0 miles of mapped trail cross Bay Springs, 0.1 per square mile of land. 27% of residents live within a half mile of a park.
Ahead of 19% of U.S. towns. What drives it
How much outdoors does Bay Springs have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Bay Springs is ahead of 19% of U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; conserved land comes closest.
Few Mississippi towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Bay Springs’ 2% is ahead of 51% of Mississippi towns, while its trails per square mile lead 30% of them.
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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236 conserved acres
2% of Bay Springs’ land. Who manages Bay Springs’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi 16th Section Public School Trust Lands State Resource Management Area | State land board | 236 | Open |
3 places to go in Bay Springs
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
3 playgrounds without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.
0.0 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
The best walking months in Bay Springs: April and May
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) | 10.3 | 11.0 | 11.9 | 12.9 | 13.8 | 14.2 | 14.0 | 13.3 | 12.3 | 11.3 | 10.5 | 10.1 |
| High (°F) | 59 | 63 | 70 | 77 | 84 | 90 | 92 | 91 | 87 | 79 | 68 | 60 |
| Rain (in) | 5.7 | 5.5 | 5.9 | 5.7 | 4.2 | 4.9 | 5.3 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 5.4 |
September is the driest month (3.9 in) and July the warmest (highs of 92 °F). 5.9 inches fall in March, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 92 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Bay Springs →
Questions about parks and trails in Bay Springs
How much of Bay Springs is conserved land?
2% of its land, against a typical 2% for a Mississippi town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.
Is there public land near Bay Springs?
10,823 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Bay Springs or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 6 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Bay Springs have?
Ahead of 19% 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 Bay Springs 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 →