Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Cherokee
0.1 miles of mapped trail cross Cherokee.
Ahead of 3% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Cherokee?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Cherokee have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Cherokee is ahead of 3% of U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; trail miles come closest.
Oklahoma towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 7%; the U.S., 4%), so Cherokee’s under 1% is ahead of 1% of Oklahoma towns, while its trails per square mile lead 20% 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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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.
6 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
April is the best month for walking in Cherokee
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) | 9.9 | 10.8 | 11.9 | 13.1 | 14.1 | 14.7 | 14.4 | 13.6 | 12.4 | 11.2 | 10.1 | 9.7 |
| High (°F) | 48 | 52 | 62 | 71 | 81 | 91 | 96 | 94 | 86 | 73 | 60 | 49 |
| Rain (in) | 0.9 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 2.9 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
January is the driest month (0.9 in) and July the warmest (highs of 96 °F). 4.5 inches fall in June, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 96 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Cherokee →
Questions about parks and trails in Cherokee
How much of Cherokee is conserved land?
under 1% of its land, against a typical 7% for an Oklahoma town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.
Is there public land near Cherokee?
159 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Cherokee or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Cherokee have?
Ahead of 3% 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 Cherokee 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 →