Oliphant House · Photo: Renelibrary · CC BY-SA 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Milam
28% of Milam’s land is conserved, about 5,898 acres.
Ahead of 16% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Milam?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Milam have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Milam is ahead of 16% of U.S. towns. Conserved land holds the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.
Few Texas towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Milam’s 28% is ahead of 98% of Texas towns, while its trails per square mile lead 7% of them.
Water is 17% of Milam’s area (7 of 40 square miles), so every share here is of land; over land and water together, the conserved share would read 23%.
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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5,898 conserved acres
28% of Milam’s land. Water is left out: Milam has 33.1 square miles of land and 6.8 of water, so the share counts land only. Who manages Milam’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sabine National Forest National Forest | U.S. Forest Service | 5,868 | Open |
| Frontier Park Sabine River Authority Site 5 Local Park | Private owners | 30 | Open |
1 places to go in Milam
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
2 lakes & rivers
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.
The best walking months in Milam: April and May
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 | 14.2 | 14.0 | 13.3 | 12.3 | 11.3 | 10.5 | 10.1 |
| High (°F) | 59 | 64 | 71 | 78 | 85 | 91 | 93 | 94 | 89 | 80 | 69 | 61 |
| Rain (in) | 5.3 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 5.7 |
August is the driest month (3.8 in) and the warmest (highs of 94 °F). 5.7 inches fall in December, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 94 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Milam →
Questions about parks and trails in Milam
How much of Milam is conserved land?
28% 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.
Is there public land near Milam?
46,003 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Milam or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 5,929 of them inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Milam have?
Ahead of 16% 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 Milam 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 →