Pawnee Agency and Boarding School Historic District · Photo: Steven C. Price · CC BY-SA 3.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Pawnee
122 acres are parks and preserves, 65 per 1,000 residents. 81% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 6% of Pawnee’s land is conserved, about 118 acres.
Ahead of 71% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Pawnee?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Pawnee have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Pawnee is ahead of 71% of U.S. towns. Park acres per resident hold the grade up; trail miles pull it down.
Oklahoma towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 7%; the U.S., 4%), so Pawnee’s 6% is ahead of 43% of Oklahoma towns, while its trails per square mile lead 50% of them.
Water is 13% of Pawnee’s area (0 of 4 square miles), so every share here is of land; over land and water together, the conserved share would read 5%.
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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118 conserved acres
6% of Pawnee’s land. Water is left out: Pawnee has 3.1 square miles of land and 0.5 of water, so the share counts land only. Who manages Pawnee’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pawnee Bill Museum State Park State Park | State parks | 118 | Open |
1 places to go in Pawnee
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
1 playground without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see it.
2 lakes & rivers
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.
8 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 Pawnee
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 | 14.6 | 14.4 | 13.5 | 12.4 | 11.2 | 10.2 | 9.7 |
| High (°F) | 49 | 54 | 63 | 72 | 79 | 88 | 93 | 92 | 84 | 73 | 61 | 50 |
| Rain (in) | 1.3 | 1.5 | 2.7 | 3.9 | 5.3 | 4.8 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 2.1 | 1.7 |
January is the driest month (1.3 in) and July the warmest (highs of 93 °F). 5.3 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 93 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Pawnee →
Questions about parks and trails in Pawnee
How much of Pawnee is conserved land?
6% 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 Pawnee?
277 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Pawnee or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 122 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Pawnee have?
Ahead of 71% 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 Pawnee 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 →