Cherokee National Forest
Managed by United States Forest Service
172 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yetWebsite ↗
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Outdoors in Banner Hill
19% of Banner Hill’s land is conserved: 173 acres
OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Banner Hill 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
19%
173 acres · of 1.4 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Near a park
under 1%
of residents within ½ mile
What kind of outdoors town is Banner Hill?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
Outdoors grade
How much outdoors does Banner Hill have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Banner Hill is ahead of 15% of U.S. towns. Conserved land holds the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.
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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Banner Hill’s overall grade.
Conserved land19% of the land · typical TN town 1% · U.S. 4%ATrails0.0 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (0 mi) · TN 0.2 · U.S. 0.4DPark land0.0 acres of park per 1,000 residents (0 acres) · TN 10 · U.S. 13DParks close to home0% of residents within a half mile of a park · TN 42% · U.S. 72%D−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 15%
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Few Tennessee towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Banner Hill’s 19% is ahead of 95% of Tennessee towns, while its trails per square mile lead 5% of them.
NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Banner Hill. 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
Places to walk
Pick a walk
Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.
Who protects it
173 conserved acres
19% of Banner Hill’s land. Who manages Banner Hill’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Forest Service173 ac
National Forest · 173 ac
The biggest protected parcels
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherokee National Forest National Forest | U.S. Forest Service | 173 | Open |
Things to do
1 places to go in Banner Hill
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
Playgrounds in Banner Hill
1 playground without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see it.
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
1Baseball
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
When to get out
The best walking months in Banner Hill: April, June and 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 | 10.8 | 11.9 | 13.1 | 14.1 | 14.6 | 14.4 | 13.5 | 12.4 | 11.2 | 10.2 | 9.7 |
| High (°F) | 47 | 51 | 59 | 69 | 76 | 82 | 85 | 84 | 79 | 69 | 58 | 49 |
| Rain (in) | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 4.1 |
October is the driest month (3.2 in) and July the warmest (highs of 85 °F). 4.9 inches fall in July, the wettest month. The climate in Banner Hill →
Next door
Banner Hill and its neighbors
Banner Hill 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banner Hill | 19% | under 0.1 | under 1 | under 1% | D |
| Erwin | 3% | under 0.1 | 6 | 52% | C |
The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.
Questions about parks and trails in Banner Hill
How much of Banner Hill is conserved land?
19% of its land, against a typical 1% for a Tennessee town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.
Are dogs allowed on Banner Hill’s trails?
Cherokee National Forest doesn’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.
Is there public land near Banner Hill?
29,560 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Banner Hill or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 1 of them inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Banner Hill 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 Banner Hill neighbors.
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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 →