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Rogersville TNPhoto: Walker Kinsler · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Outdoors in Rogersville

Rogersville has 55 acres of parks, 12 for every 1,000 residents

0.2 miles of mapped trail cross Rogersville, 0.1 per square mile of land. 2% of Rogersville’s land is conserved, about 38 acres. 68% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

Ahead of 34% of U.S. towns · #84 of 177 in Tennessee. What drives it

Conserved land
2%
38 acres · of 3.8 sq mi of land
Trails
0.2 mi
0.1 per sq mi of land
Park land
55 ac
12 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
68%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Rogersville?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Rogersville have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Rogersville is ahead of 34% of U.S. towns, #84 of 177 in Tennessee. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; trail miles pull it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Rogersville’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 34%
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Tennessee towns of 2,500+ (177)Ahead of 53%

Few Tennessee towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Rogersville’s 2% is ahead of 51% of Tennessee towns, while its trails per square mile lead 27% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Rogersville. 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 C to C+. 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.

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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Pick a walk

Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.

Rogersville Park

Park
49 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot
Who protects it

38 conserved acres

2% of Rogersville’s land. Who manages Rogersville’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Town or city38 ac
Local Park · 38 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Rogersville City Park
Local Park
Town or city34Open
Swift Mini Park
Local Park
Town or city2Open
Crockett Spring Park
Local Park
Town or city2Open
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
4Tennis
2Basketball
1Skate park
1Baseball

Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.

History along the way

4 places on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service). The map also marks 6 historic points from OpenStreetMap: plaques, memorials and old buildings.

History →
Rogersville Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1973
About it
Amis HouseBuilding · listed 1973
About it
Price Public Elementary SchoolBuilding · listed 1988
About it
St. Marks Presbyterian ChurchBuilding · listed 2006
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Rogersville: 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)9.910.811.913.114.114.614.413.512.411.210.29.7
High (°F)475160707884878681716050
Rain (in)4.24.24.84.44.04.54.83.53.32.83.34.5

October is the driest month (2.8 in) and July the warmest (highs of 87 °F). 4.8 inches fall in March, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 87 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Rogersville →

Next door

Rogersville and its neighbors

Rogersville 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
Rogersville2%0.11268%C
Surgoinsvilleunder 1%0.2225%D

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

Questions about parks and trails in Rogersville

How much of Rogersville is conserved land?

2% 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.

Are dogs allowed on Rogersville’s trails?

Rogersville Park doesn’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.

Is there public land near Rogersville?

77 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Rogersville or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 55 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Rogersville have?

Ahead of 34% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #84 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 Rogersville 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 →