Photo: Chillin662 · CC BY-SA 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Rolling Fork
0.8 miles of mapped trail cross Rolling Fork, 0.6 per square mile of land.
Ahead of 10% of U.S. towns. What drives it
How much outdoors does Rolling Fork have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Rolling Fork is ahead of 10% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.
Few Mississippi towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Rolling Fork’s under 1% is ahead of 5% of Mississippi towns, while its trails per square mile lead 97% 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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1 lakes & rivers
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.
2 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
May is the best month for walking in Rolling Fork
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) | 10.2 | 11.0 | 11.9 | 13.0 | 13.8 | 14.3 | 14.1 | 13.4 | 12.3 | 11.3 | 10.4 | 10.0 |
| High (°F) | 55 | 60 | 68 | 76 | 84 | 90 | 92 | 92 | 88 | 78 | 66 | 58 |
| Rain (in) | 5.3 | 5.5 | 5.3 | 6.0 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 5.7 |
September is the driest month (3.5 in) and August the warmest (highs of 92 °F). 6.0 inches fall in April, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 92 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Rolling Fork →
Questions about parks and trails in Rolling Fork
How much of Rolling Fork is conserved land?
under 1% 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 Rolling Fork?
1,054 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Rolling Fork or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Rolling Fork have?
Ahead of 10% 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 Rolling Fork 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 →