Few parks or trails are on the map in Palm Valley
0.6 miles of mapped trail cross Palm Valley, 1.0 per square mile of land.
Ahead of 13% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Palm Valley?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Palm Valley have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Palm Valley is ahead of 13% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold 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 Palm Valley’s under 1% is ahead of 6% of Texas towns, while its trails per square mile lead 88% 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.
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.
The walking year in Palm Valley
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) | 10.7 | 11.2 | 11.9 | 12.7 | 13.4 | 13.8 | 13.6 | 13.1 | 12.3 | 11.5 | 10.8 | 10.5 |
| High (°F) | 71 | 76 | 81 | 86 | 91 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 92 | 88 | 79 | 73 |
| Rain (in) | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 2.2 | 2.9 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 5.1 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 1.2 |
February is the driest month (1.0 in) and August the warmest (highs of 97 °F). 5.1 inches fall in September, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 97 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Palm Valley →
Palm Valley and its neighbors
Palm Valley has the second most mapped trails of the 2 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.
| Town | Conserved of land | Trail mi per sq mi | Park acres per 1,000 | Near a park ½ mile | Outdoors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palm Valley | under 1% | 1.0 | under 1 | under 1% | D |
| Harlingen | 2% | 0.7 | 10 | 64% | B− |
The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.
Questions about parks and trails in Palm Valley
How much of Palm Valley 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.
Is there public land near Palm Valley?
896 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Palm Valley or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Palm Valley have?
Ahead of 13% 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 Palm Valley 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 →