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Houston County Courthouse, ErinPhoto: Nyttend · Public domain
D−Outdoors
Outdoors in Erin

Few parks or trails are on the map in Erin

OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Erin yet. Know a trail or a town park? Anyone can add it to OpenStreetMap, and it shows up here on the next refresh.

Behind most U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 3.9 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
Bike routes
2.0 mi
2.0 mi paths

What kind of outdoors town is Erin?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Erin have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Erin is behind most U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; conserved land comes closest.

D−
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Erin’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Behind most
LessMore

Few Tennessee towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Erin’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 Erin. 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 still be 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
Biking & sports

2.0 miles of bike routes

Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

2.0 mi
off-road bike paths
Courts & fields
3Baseball
1Football
1Basketball

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 →
V. R. Harris HouseBuilding · listed 1983
About it
Erin LimekilnsStructure · listed 2004
About it
Quarry LimekilnStructure · listed 2004
About it
When to get out

June is the best month for walking in Erin

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)475261717986898983726050
Rain (in)4.14.65.15.35.24.94.43.63.83.74.24.9

August is the driest month (3.6 in) and July the warmest (highs of 89 °F). 5.3 inches fall in April, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 89 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Erin →

Questions about parks and trails in Erin

How much of Erin 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.

Where can I bike in Erin?

2.0 miles of bike routes are on the map: 2.0 of off-road paths.

Is there public land near Erin?

5,395 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Erin or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Erin have?

Behind most 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 Erin 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 →