Photo: Brian Stansberry · CC BY 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Logan
2.5 miles of mapped trail cross Logan, 2.2 per square mile of land.
Ahead of 16% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Logan?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Logan have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Logan is ahead of 16% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.
Few West Virginia towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Logan’s under 1% is ahead of 6% of West Virginia towns, while its trails per square mile lead 95% of them.
Water is 7% of Logan’s area (0 of 1 square miles), so every share here is of land; over land and water together, the conserved share would read under 1%.
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.
3 named trails
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 2 historic points from OpenStreetMap: plaques, memorials and old buildings.
The best walking months in Logan: April and 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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 9.8 | 10.7 | 11.8 | 13.1 | 14.2 | 14.8 | 14.5 | 13.6 | 12.4 | 11.1 | 10.1 | 9.6 |
| High (°F) | 45 | 49 | 58 | 70 | 78 | 85 | 88 | 86 | 81 | 70 | 58 | 48 |
| Rain (in) | 3.5 | 3.4 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 4.7 | 5.6 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 4.1 |
November is the driest month (3.1 in) and July the warmest (highs of 88 °F). 5.6 inches fall in July, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 88 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Logan →
Logan and its neighbors
Logan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logan | under 1% | 2.2 | under 1 | under 1% | C− |
| Mount Gay-Shamrock | 8% | 1.0 | 359 | 33% | A− |
The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.
Questions about parks and trails in Logan
How much of Logan is conserved land?
under 1% of its land, against a typical 2% for a West 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 Logan?
25,839 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Logan or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Logan have?
Ahead of 16% 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 Logan 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 →