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B+Outdoors
Outdoors in Clinton

Clinton has 53 acres of parks, 50 for every 1,000 residents

72% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 1.0 miles of mapped trail cross Clinton, 0.3 per square mile of land. 3% of Clinton’s land is conserved, about 66 acres.

Ahead of 65% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
3%
66 acres · of 3.3 sq mi of land
Trails
1.0 mi
0.3 per sq mi of land
Park land
53 ac
50 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
72%
of residents within ½ mile
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Clinton have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Clinton is ahead of 65% of U.S. towns. All four inputs are above most U.S. towns; park acres per resident rank highest, conserved land lowest.

B+
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Clinton’s overall grade.
Conserved land3% of the land · typical MT town 10% · U.S. 4%B−Trails0.3 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (1 mi) · MT 0.7 · U.S. 0.4B−Park land50 acres of park per 1,000 residents (53 acres) · MT 14 · U.S. 13A−Parks close to home72% of residents within a half mile of a park · MT 91% · U.S. 72%B
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 65%
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Montana towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 10%; the U.S., 4%), so Clinton’s 3% is ahead of 17% of Montana towns, while its trails per square mile lead 24% of them.

How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would range from B− to B+. 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.

Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Who protects it

66 conserved acres

3% of Clinton’s land. Who manages Clinton’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

County38 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits26 ac
State fish & wildlife12 ac
U.S. Forest Service5 ac
Local Conservation Area · 30 acUnknown Easement · 26 acState Recreation Area · 12 acNational Forest · 5 acLocal Recreation Area · 4 ac
Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 11 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. Public access isn’t recorded for 1 of 6 parcels. The walks above are places people visit.

The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Clinton Conservation Park
Local Conservation Area
County30Open
Schwartz Creek Fishing Access Site
State Recreation Area
State fish & wildlife12Open
Lolo National Forest
National Forest
U.S. Forest Service5Open
Clinton Community Center
Local Recreation Area
County4Open
Wallace Creek Park
Local Park
County4Open
Things to do

4 places to go in Clinton

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

Playgrounds in Clinton
Cougar Kingdom
Directions
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
2Tracks
1Baseball
1Basketball

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

When to get out

The best walking months in Clinton: May to September

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)8.910.211.813.515.015.815.514.212.510.89.38.6
High (°F)333848566673848372574132
Rain (in)0.90.80.91.21.82.20.90.91.11.21.11.1

February is the driest month (0.8 in) and July the warmest (highs of 84 °F). 2.2 inches fall in June, the wettest month. The climate in Clinton →

Questions about parks and trails in Clinton

How much of Clinton is conserved land?

3% of its land, against a typical 10% for a Montana town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Clinton?

152,799 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Clinton or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 57 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Clinton have?

Ahead of 65% 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 Clinton neighbors.

Town Square →
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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 →