Photo: Shannon McGee · CC BY-SA 2.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Clifton
1.6 miles of mapped trail cross Clifton, 0.3 per square mile of land.
Ahead of 7% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Clifton?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Clifton have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Clifton is ahead of 7% of U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; trail miles come closest.
Few Tennessee towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Clifton’s under 1% is ahead of 6% of Tennessee towns, while its trails per square mile lead 64% of them.
Water is 9% of Clifton’s area (1 of 6 square miles), so every share here is of land; over land and water together, the conserved share would read under 1%.
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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1 places to go in Clifton
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
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.
3 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The best walking months in Clifton: 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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 10.0 | 10.9 | 11.9 | 13.0 | 14.0 | 14.5 | 14.3 | 13.5 | 12.3 | 11.2 | 10.2 | 9.8 |
| High (°F) | 50 | 55 | 64 | 74 | 81 | 87 | 90 | 90 | 84 | 74 | 62 | 53 |
| Rain (in) | 4.8 | 5.1 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 5.4 |
August is the driest month (3.8 in) and July the warmest (highs of 90 °F). 5.4 inches fall in December, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 90 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Clifton →
Questions about parks and trails in Clifton
How much of Clifton 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.
How much outdoors does Clifton have?
Ahead of 7% 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 Clifton 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 →