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Outdoors in Crewe

Few parks or trails are on the map in Crewe

90% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 0.1 miles of mapped trail cross Crewe. 58 acres are parks and preserves, 20 per 1,000 residents.

Ahead of 56% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
4%
57 acres · of 2.0 sq mi of land
Trails
0.1 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
58 ac
20 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
90%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Crewe?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Crewe have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Crewe is ahead of 56% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; trail miles pull it down.

B
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Crewe’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 56%
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NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Crewe. 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 B− 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

57 conserved acres

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

Town or city57 ac
Local Park · 46 acLocal Recreation Area · 12 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Hooper Park
Local Park
Town or city30Open
Railroader Park
Local Park
Town or city15Open
Crewe Ball Park
Local Recreation Area
Town or city12Open
Library Park
Local Park
Town or city1Open
Things to do

1 places to go in Crewe

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

Playgrounds in Crewe

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
4Baseball

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

History along the way

2 places on the National Register

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

History →
WSVS Radio StationBuilding · listed 2022
About it
Crewe Commercial Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2023
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Crewe: April to June

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)9.910.811.913.114.114.714.513.612.411.210.19.6
High (°F)485259707784888680706051
Rain (in)3.52.84.03.54.33.94.54.04.43.73.33.7

February is the driest month (2.8 in) and July the warmest (highs of 88 °F). 4.5 inches fall in July, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 88 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Crewe →

Questions about parks and trails in Crewe

How much of Crewe is conserved land?

4% 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 Crewe?

8,680 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Crewe or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 58 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Crewe have?

Ahead of 56% 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 Crewe 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 →