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Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle GroveCedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove · Photo: APK · CC BY-SA 4.0
D−Outdoors
Outdoors in Middletown

Few parks or trails are on the map in Middletown

OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Middletown 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

Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 0.8 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Near a park
under 1%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Middletown?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Middletown have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Middletown is behind most U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; conserved land comes closest.

D−
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Middletown’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Behind most
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NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Middletown. 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 still be D−. 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
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
1Baseball

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

History along the way

5 places on the National Register, one a National Historic Landmark

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.

History →
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Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle GroveNational Historic Landmark · District · listed 1969
About it
St. Thomas ChapelBuilding · listed 1973
About it
Monte VistaBuilding · listed 1987
About it
Middletown Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2003
About it
Thorndale FarmDistrict · listed 2016
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Middletown: April and August

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)9.710.711.813.214.314.914.613.712.411.110.09.4
High (°F)434655667583878578685646
Rain (in)2.62.13.33.24.34.34.03.54.23.02.72.8

February is the driest month (2.1 in) and July the warmest (highs of 87 °F). 4.3 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 87 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Middletown →

Questions about parks and trails in Middletown

How much of Middletown is conserved land?

under 1% 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 Middletown?

11,726 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Middletown or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Middletown 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 Middletown 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 →