Few parks or trails are on the map in Mountain Home
OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Mountain Home yet. Know a trail or a town park? Anyone can add it to OpenStreetMap, and it shows up here on the next refresh.
Behind most U.S. towns · #286 of 290 in North Carolina. What drives it
How much outdoors does Mountain Home have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Mountain Home is behind most U.S. towns, #286 of 290 in North Carolina. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; conserved land comes closest.
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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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.
1 place on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The best walking months in Mountain Home: April to August
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) | 10.0 | 10.9 | 11.9 | 13.0 | 14.0 | 14.5 | 14.3 | 13.5 | 12.3 | 11.2 | 10.2 | 9.8 |
| High (°F) | 47 | 52 | 59 | 68 | 75 | 81 | 83 | 82 | 77 | 68 | 58 | 50 |
| Rain (in) | 4.7 | 3.9 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 5.0 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 4.7 |
February is the driest month (3.9 in) and July the warmest (highs of 83 °F). 5.0 inches fall in August, the wettest month. The climate in Mountain Home →
Mountain Home and its neighbors
Mountain Home has the second most mapped trails of the 2 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.
| Town | Conserved of land | Trail mi per sq mi | Park acres per 1,000 | Near a park ½ mile | Outdoors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Home | under 1% | under 0.1 | under 1 | under 1% | D− |
| Balfour | 1% | 0.2 | 8 | 53% | C |
The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.
Questions about parks and trails in Mountain Home
How much of Mountain Home is conserved land?
under 1% of its land, against a typical 3% for a North Carolina town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.
Is there public land near Mountain Home?
14,535 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Mountain Home or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Mountain Home have?
Behind most U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #286 of 290 in North Carolina. 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 Mountain Home 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 →