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D−Outdoors
Outdoors in Los Altos

Few parks or trails are on the map in Los Altos

OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Los Altos 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

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 Los Altos have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Los Altos is behind most U.S. towns. All three inputs are below most U.S. towns; trail miles come closest.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Los Altos’ overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Behind most
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NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Los Altos. 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 three of the four inputs, so a change in any one moves the letter more than it would with four. 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 walking year in Los Altos

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)10.611.211.912.813.513.913.713.112.311.510.710.4
High (°F)687380879398999993867669
Rain (in)0.90.71.31.32.81.81.91.73.91.61.11.1

February is the driest month (0.7 in) and August the warmest (highs of 99 °F). 3.9 inches fall in September, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 99 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Los Altos →

Next door

Los Altos and its neighbors

Los Altos 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
Los Altos–under 0.1under 1under 1%D−
Laredo3%0.8982%B

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

Questions about parks and trails in Los Altos

Is there public land near Los Altos?

2,539 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Los Altos or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Los Altos 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 Los Altos 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 →