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Downtown Courtland, VirginiaPhoto: Ser Amantio di Nicolao · CC BY-SA 4.0
C−Outdoors
Outdoors in Courtland

Few parks or trails are on the map in Courtland

0.9 miles of mapped trail cross Courtland, 1.0 per square mile of land. 3% of Courtland’s land is conserved, about 15 acres.

Ahead of 24% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
3%
15 acres · of 0.9 sq mi of land
Trails
0.9 mi
1.0 per sq mi of land
Near a park
under 1%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Courtland?

Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Courtland have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Courtland is ahead of 24% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Courtland’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 24%
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NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Courtland. 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 D to C+. 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

15 conserved acres

3% of Courtland’s land. Who manages Courtland’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

State conservation17 ac
Other state land13 ac
Conservation Easement · 15 acUnknown Easement · 13 acOther Easement · 2 ac
Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 15 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. Public access isn’t recorded for 1 of 4 parcels. The walks above are places people visit.

Things to do

1 places to go in Courtland

Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.

Playgrounds in Courtland

1 playground without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see it.

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
2Baseball
1Basketball
1Football
1Soccer

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

History along the way

5 places on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).

History →
Rebecca Vaughan HouseBuilding · listed 2006
About it
Mahone's TavernBuilding · listed 2008
About it
Rochelle-Prince HouseBuilding · listed 2011
About it
Courtland SchoolBuilding · listed 2016
About it
Courtland Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2020
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Courtland: 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)9.910.811.913.114.114.714.413.512.411.210.29.7
High (°F)515461727986908882726254
Rain (in)3.72.94.03.43.94.65.45.35.43.83.23.5

February is the driest month (2.9 in) and July the warmest (highs of 90 °F). 5.4 inches fall in July, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 90 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Courtland →

Questions about parks and trails in Courtland

How much of Courtland is conserved land?

3% of its land, against a typical 4% for a Virginia town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Courtland?

57 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Courtland or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Courtland have?

Ahead of 24% 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 Courtland 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 →