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C−Outdoors
Outdoors in Lame Deer

Lame Deer has 61 miles of mapped trails, 1.1 for every square mile of land

OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Lame Deer yet. Know a trail or a town park? Anyone can add it to OpenStreetMap, and it shows up here on the next refresh.

Ahead of 15% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
18 acres · of 55.6 sq mi of land
Trails
61 mi
1.1 per sq mi of land
Near a park
under 1%
of residents within ½ mile
Lakes & rivers
1

What kind of outdoors town is Lame Deer?

Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.

A trail town1.1 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land, more than 82% of U.S. towns.
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Lame Deer have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Lame Deer is ahead of 15% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Lame Deer’s overall grade.
Conserved landunder 1% of the land · typical MT town 10% · U.S. 4%DTrails1.1 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (61 mi) · MT 0.7 · U.S. 0.4A−Park land0.0 acres of park per 1,000 residents (0 acres) · MT 14 · U.S. 13DParks close to home0% of residents within a half mile of a park · MT 91% · U.S. 72%D−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 15%
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Montana towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 10%; the U.S., 4%), so Lame Deer’s under 1% is ahead of 5% of Montana towns, while its trails per square mile lead 67% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Lame Deer. 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

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

18 conserved acres

under 1% of Lame Deer’s land. Who manages Lame Deer’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Bureau of Land Management18 ac
National Public Lands · 18 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Miles City Field Office
National Public Lands
Bureau of Land Management18Open
Trails & water

1 lakes & rivers

Lakes & rivers tap for directions
Rosebud Creek
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
3Basketball
2Baseball
1Football

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

History along the way

2 places on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).

History →
Wold BarnBuilding · listed 2009
About it
Head Chief-Young Mule ChargeSite · listed 2024
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Lame Deer: June 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)9.110.311.813.514.915.715.414.112.510.89.48.7
High (°F)353748566576868574584536
Rain (in)0.50.61.01.73.12.31.71.01.41.40.60.6

January is the driest month (0.5 in) and July the warmest (highs of 86 °F). 3.1 inches fall in May, the wettest month. The climate in Lame Deer →

Next door

Lame Deer and its neighbors

Lame Deer has the most mapped trails of the 2 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.

Lame Deer61 miMuddy15 mi
TownConserved
of land		Trail mi
per sq mi		Park acres
per 1,000		Near a park
½ mile		Outdoors
Lame Deerunder 1%1.1under 1under 1%C−
Muddy— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.

Questions about parks and trails in Lame Deer

How much of Lame Deer 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.

Is there public land near Lame Deer?

13,433 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Lame Deer or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 17 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Lame Deer have?

Ahead of 15% 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 Lame Deer 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 →