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C+Outdoors
Outdoors in Wills Point

Few parks or trails are on the map in Wills Point

83 acres are parks and preserves, 21 per 1,000 residents. 4% of Wills Point’s land is conserved, about 82 acres. 59% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

Ahead of 38% of U.S. towns · #359 of 642 in Texas. What drives it

Conserved land
4%
82 acres · of 3.7 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
83 ac
21 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
59%
of residents within ½ mile
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Wills Point have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Wills Point is ahead of 38% of U.S. towns, #359 of 642 in Texas. Park acres per resident hold the grade up; trail miles pull it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Wills Point’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 38%
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Texas towns of 2,500+ (642)Ahead of 44%

Few Texas towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Wills Point’s 4% is ahead of 70% of Texas towns, while its trails per square mile lead 7% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Wills Point. 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 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

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
Who protects it

82 conserved acres

4% of Wills Point’s land. Who manages Wills Point’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Town or city162 ac
Conservation Easement · 71 acLocal Park · 70 acRecreation or Education Easement · 11 acLocal Recreation Area · 11 ac
Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 1 acre is a conservation easement, usually private land. The walks above are places people visit.

The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Unknown Park
Local Park
Town or city65Open
Sports Complex
Local Recreation Area
Town or city11Open
Recreation Park
Local Park
Town or city6Open
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
5Baseball
1Basketball

Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.

When to get out

April is the best month for walking in Wills Point

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)10.211.011.912.913.814.314.113.312.311.310.410.0
High (°F)566068758289949488786658
Rain (in)3.03.44.13.84.93.82.42.63.14.93.43.9

July is the driest month (2.4 in) and August the warmest (highs of 94 °F). 4.9 inches fall in October, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 94 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Wills Point →

Questions about parks and trails in Wills Point

How much of Wills Point is conserved land?

4% 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 Wills Point?

552 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Wills Point or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 83 of them inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Wills Point have?

Ahead of 38% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #359 of 642 in Texas. 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 Wills Point neighbors.

Town Square →
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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 →