Menard River Park
Park
24 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Photo: Billy Hathorn · CC BY-SA 3.0B−Outdoors
Outdoors in Menard
Menard has 30 acres of parks, 30 for every 1,000 residents
2.1 miles of mapped trail cross Menard, 1.0 per square mile of land. 53% of residents live within a half mile of a park.
Ahead of 50% of U.S. towns. What drives it
Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 2.1 sq mi of land
Trails
2.1 mi
1.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
30 ac
30 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
53%
of residents within ½ mile
What kind of outdoors town is Menard?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
Outdoors grade
How much outdoors does Menard have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Menard is ahead of 50% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.
B−
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Menard’s overall grade.
Conserved landunder 1% of the land · typical TX town 2% · U.S. 4%DTrails1.0 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (2 mi) · TX 0.2 · U.S. 0.4A−Park land30 acres of park per 1,000 residents (30 acres) · TX 9 · U.S. 13B+Parks close to home53% of residents within a half mile of a park · TX 69% · U.S. 72%C+
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 50%
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Few Texas towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Menard’s under 1% is ahead of 6% of Texas towns, while its trails per square mile lead 89% of them.
How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would range from C to B+. 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
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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.
Low Water Bridge Park
Park
4 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
American Legion Park
Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
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
6Tennis
1Football
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
History along the way
History →1 place on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service). The map also marks 8 historic points from OpenStreetMap: plaques, memorials and old buildings.
Menard County CourthouseBuilding · listed 2003
About itWhen to get out
April is the best month for walking in Menard
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) | 10.3 | 11.0 | 11.9 | 12.9 | 13.7 | 14.1 | 14.0 | 13.3 | 12.3 | 11.4 | 10.5 | 10.1 |
| High (°F) | 60 | 65 | 72 | 80 | 86 | 92 | 95 | 95 | 88 | 79 | 68 | 61 |
| Rain (in) | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 2.0 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 1.2 |
January is the driest month (1.2 in) and August the warmest (highs of 95 °F). 3.2 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 95 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Menard →
Questions about parks and trails in Menard
How much of Menard 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 Menard’s trails?
Menard River Park and Low Water Bridge Park don’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.
Is there public land near Menard?
72 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Menard or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 30 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Menard have?
Ahead of 50% 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 Menard 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 →