Mathews-Powell House · Photo: 25or6to4 · CC BY-SA 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Queen City
OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Queen City 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
How much outdoors does Queen City have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Queen City is behind most U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; conserved land comes closest.
Few Texas towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Queen City’s under 1% is ahead of 6% of Texas towns, while its trails per square mile lead 7% 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.
1 place on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service). The map also marks 1 historic points from OpenStreetMap: plaques, memorials and old buildings.
April is the best month for walking in Queen City
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) | 10.2 | 11.0 | 11.9 | 13.0 | 13.9 | 14.3 | 14.1 | 13.4 | 12.3 | 11.3 | 10.4 | 10.0 |
| High (°F) | 56 | 60 | 68 | 76 | 83 | 89 | 93 | 93 | 87 | 77 | 66 | 57 |
| Rain (in) | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 5.0 |
August is the driest month (3.0 in) and the warmest (highs of 93 °F). 5.1 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 93 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Queen City →
Queen City and its neighbors
Queen City 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queen City | under 1% | under 0.1 | under 1 | under 1% | D− |
| Atlanta | 2% | 0.1 | 24 | 40% | C |
The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.
Questions about parks and trails in Queen City
How much of Queen City 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 Queen City?
14,285 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Queen City or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Queen City 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 Queen City 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 →