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D−Outdoors
Outdoors in Blountville

Few parks or trails are on the map in Blountville

3 acres are parks and preserves, 0.9 per 1,000 residents. 16% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

Ahead of 4% of U.S. towns · #166 of 177 in Tennessee. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 4.9 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
3 ac
0.9 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
16%
of residents within ½ mile
Highest peak
1,647 ft
Graveyard Hill

What kind of outdoors town is Blountville?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Blountville have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Blountville is ahead of 4% of U.S. towns, #166 of 177 in Tennessee. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; the share of residents near a park comes closest.

D−
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Blountville’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 4%
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Tennessee towns of 2,500+ (177)Ahead of 6%

Few Tennessee towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Blountville’s under 1% is ahead of 6% of Tennessee towns, while its trails per square mile lead 5% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Blountville. 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 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
Things to do

2 places to go in Blountville

Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.

Peaks in Blountville
Graveyard Hill1,647 ft elevation
Directions
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.

History along the way

3 places on the National Register

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

History →
Blountville Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1973
About it
Erwin FarmBuilding · listed 1973
About it
Old Deery InnBuilding · listed 1973
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Blountville: April to 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)9.910.811.913.114.114.614.413.512.411.210.29.7
High (°F)475160707784868681715950
Rain (in)3.63.84.13.94.24.14.83.83.02.83.23.9

October is the driest month (2.8 in) and July the warmest (highs of 86 °F). 4.8 inches fall in July, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 86 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Blountville →

Next door

Blountville and its neighbors

Blountville has the second most mapped trails of the 2 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.

TownConserved
of land
Trail mi
per sq mi
Park acres
per 1,000
Near a park
½ mile
Outdoors
Blountvilleunder 1%under 0.1116%D−
Bristol12%1.19157%A

The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.

Questions about parks and trails in Blountville

How much of Blountville is conserved land?

under 1% 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.

Is there public land near Blountville?

4,596 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Blountville or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 3 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Blountville have?

Ahead of 4% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #166 of 177 in Tennessee. 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 Blountville 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 →