Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Comfort
4.5 miles of mapped trail cross Comfort, 1.3 per square mile of land. 5 acres are parks and preserves, 2.9 per 1,000 residents. 30% of residents live within a half mile of a park.
Ahead of 30% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Comfort?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Comfort have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Comfort is ahead of 30% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.
Few Texas towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Comfort’s under 1% is ahead of 17% of Texas towns, while its trails per square mile lead 93% 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
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it.
Pick a walk
Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.
5 conserved acres
under 1% of Comfort’s land. Who manages Comfort’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comfort Community Park Local Park | Town or city | 5 | Open |
3 places to go in Comfort
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
3 playgrounds without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.
1 lakes & rivers
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.
5 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service). The map also marks 18 historic points from OpenStreetMap: plaques, memorials and old buildings.
April is the best month for walking in Comfort
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) | 10.4 | 11.1 | 11.9 | 12.9 | 13.6 | 14.1 | 13.9 | 13.2 | 12.3 | 11.4 | 10.6 | 10.2 |
| High (°F) | 62 | 66 | 73 | 80 | 85 | 91 | 94 | 95 | 89 | 81 | 70 | 63 |
| Rain (in) | 1.9 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 4.4 | 3.3 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 2.3 | 1.8 |
February is the driest month (1.8 in) and August the warmest (highs of 95 °F). 4.4 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 95 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Comfort →
Questions about parks and trails in Comfort
How much of Comfort is conserved land?
under 1% of its land, against a typical 2% for a Texas town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.
Are dogs allowed on Comfort’s trails?
Comfort Park doesn’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.
Is there public land near Comfort?
1,305 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Comfort or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 5 of them inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Comfort have?
Ahead of 30% 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 Comfort 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 →