Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Plainview
6% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 5 acres are parks and preserves, 2.1 per 1,000 residents.
Ahead of 4% of U.S. towns. What drives it
How much outdoors does Plainview have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Plainview is ahead of 4% of U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; park acres per resident come closest.
Few Tennessee towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Plainview’s under 1% is ahead of 6% of Tennessee towns, while its trails per square mile lead 5% of them.
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 place on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The best walking months in Plainview: April to 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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 9.9 | 10.8 | 11.9 | 13.1 | 14.1 | 14.6 | 14.4 | 13.5 | 12.4 | 11.2 | 10.2 | 9.7 |
| High (°F) | 46 | 51 | 60 | 70 | 78 | 84 | 87 | 86 | 81 | 71 | 59 | 49 |
| Rain (in) | 4.8 | 5.1 | 5.1 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 5.6 |
August is the driest month (3.5 in) and July the warmest (highs of 87 °F). 5.6 inches fall in December, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 87 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Plainview →
Questions about parks and trails in Plainview
How much of Plainview 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 Plainview?
4,615 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Plainview or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 5 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Plainview have?
Ahead of 4% 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 Plainview 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 →