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Lyles tennessee post office 2009Photo: Ichabod · CC BY-SA 3.0
D−Outdoors
Outdoors in Lyles

Few parks or trails are on the map in Lyles

OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Lyles 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 2.6 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
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Lyles have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Lyles 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 Lyles’ overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Behind most
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Few Tennessee towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Lyles’ 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 Lyles. 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
When to get out

The best walking months in Lyles: April and June

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)10.010.811.913.114.114.614.413.512.411.210.29.7
High (°F)485262717885888882726051
Rain (in)4.44.85.04.95.34.54.43.83.53.93.95.1

September is the driest month (3.5 in) and July the warmest (highs of 88 °F). 5.3 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 88 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Lyles →

Next door

Lyles and its neighbors

Lyles has the 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
Lylesunder 1%under 0.1under 1under 1%D−
Bon Aqua Junctionunder 1%under 0.11343%D

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

Questions about parks and trails in Lyles

How much of Lyles 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 Lyles?

627 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Lyles or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Lyles 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 Lyles 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 →