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Outdoors in Wadesboro

Few parks or trails are on the map in Wadesboro

4 acres are parks and preserves, 0.7 per 1,000 residents. 26% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 0.6 miles of mapped trail cross Wadesboro, 0.1 per square mile of land.

Ahead of 10% of U.S. towns · #264 of 290 in North Carolina. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
3 acres · of 6.6 sq mi of land
Trails
0.6 mi
0.1 per sq mi of land
Park land
4 ac
0.7 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
26%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Wadesboro?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Wadesboro have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Wadesboro is ahead of 10% of U.S. towns, #264 of 290 in North Carolina. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; trail miles come closest.

D
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Wadesboro’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 10%
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North Carolina towns of 2,500+ (290)Ahead of 9%
NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Wadesboro. 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 still be D. 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

3 conserved acres

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

Town or city3 ac
Local Recreation Area · 3 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Ball Field
Local Recreation Area
Town or city3Open
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
2Baseball
1Football
1Basketball

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

History along the way

4 places on the National Register

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

History →
Boggan-Hammond House and Alexander Little WingBuilding · listed 1972
About it
US Post OfficeBuilding · listed 1987
About it
Wadesboro Downtown Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1999
About it
Westview CemeterySite · listed 2015
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Wadesboro: April and May

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)10.010.911.913.014.014.514.313.512.311.210.39.8
High (°F)545865748188918984746456
Rain (in)3.83.33.83.33.74.45.04.44.73.73.53.7

February is the driest month (3.3 in) and July the warmest (highs of 91 °F). 5.0 inches fall in July, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 91 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Wadesboro →

Questions about parks and trails in Wadesboro

How much of Wadesboro 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 Wadesboro?

1,273 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Wadesboro or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 4 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Wadesboro have?

Ahead of 10% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #264 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 Wadesboro 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 →