Brooks Hotel · Photo: Jon Roanhaus · CC BY-SA 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Corvallis
0.5 miles of mapped trail cross Corvallis, 0.9 per square mile of land. 29 acres are parks and preserves, 23 per 1,000 residents. 71% of residents live within a half mile of a park.
Ahead of 52% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Corvallis?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Corvallis have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Corvallis is ahead of 52% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.
Montana towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 10%; the U.S., 4%), so Corvallis’ under 1% is ahead of 2% of Montana towns, while its trails per square mile lead 57% 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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2 places to go in Corvallis
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
2 playgrounds without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.
0.3 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.
3 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The best walking months in Corvallis: 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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 9.0 | 10.3 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 15.0 | 15.8 | 15.4 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 10.8 | 9.3 | 8.6 |
| High (°F) | 36 | 40 | 50 | 58 | 68 | 75 | 86 | 84 | 74 | 58 | 43 | 34 |
| Rain (in) | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.2 |
August is the driest month (0.8 in) and July the warmest (highs of 86 °F). 1.7 inches fall in June, the wettest month. The climate in Corvallis →
Questions about parks and trails in Corvallis
How much of Corvallis is conserved land?
under 1% 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.
Where can I bike in Corvallis?
0.3 miles of bike routes are on the map: 0.3 of off-road paths.
Is there public land near Corvallis?
27,596 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Corvallis or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 29 of them inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Corvallis have?
Ahead of 52% 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 Corvallis 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 →