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Outdoors in Alpine

8% of Alpine’s land is conserved: 58 acres

1.1 miles of mapped trail cross Alpine, 1.1 per square mile of land.

Ahead of 34% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
8%
58 acres · of 1.0 sq mi of land
Trails
1.1 mi
1.1 per sq mi of land
Near a park
under 1%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Alpine?

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

A trail town1.1 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land, more than 81% of U.S. towns.
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Alpine have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Alpine is ahead of 34% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.

C
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Alpine’s overall grade.
Conserved land8% of the land · typical WY town 9% · U.S. 4%B+Trails1.1 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (1 mi) · WY 1.2 · U.S. 0.4A−Park land0.0 acres of park per 1,000 residents (0 acres) · WY 21 · U.S. 13DParks close to home0% of residents within a half mile of a park · WY 91% · U.S. 72%D−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 34%
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Wyoming towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 9%; the U.S., 4%), so Alpine’s 8% is ahead of 46% of Wyoming towns, while its trails per square mile lead 46% of 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

58 conserved acres

8% of Alpine’s land. Who manages Alpine’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Bureau of Reclamation38 ac
State fish & wildlife13 ac
U.S. Forest Service8 ac
Resource Management Area · 38 acState Conservation Area · 13 acNational Forest · 8 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Palisades Reservoir
Resource Management Area
Bureau of Reclamation38Open
Greys River Wildlife Habitat Management Area
State Conservation Area
State fish & wildlife13Restricted
Targhee National Forest
National Forest
U.S. Forest Service4Open
Caribou National Forest
National Forest
U.S. Forest Service3Open
Bridger National Forest
National Forest
U.S. Forest Service1Open
Things to do

15 places to go in Alpine

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

Playgrounds in Alpine
Ferry Peak Park
Directions

Plus 4 playgrounds without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.

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
1Skate park
1Basketball

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

When to get out

The best walking months in Alpine: May to September

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)9.310.511.813.314.715.415.113.912.410.99.69.0
High (°F)293343536473838272584129
Rain (in)1.51.21.21.31.91.50.81.11.31.41.41.6

July is the driest month (0.8 in) and the warmest (highs of 83 °F). 1.9 inches fall in May, the wettest month. The climate in Alpine →

Next door

Alpine and its neighbors

Alpine has the second most mapped trails of the 2 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.

Alpine Northeast9.8 miAlpine1.1 mi
TownConserved
of land		Trail mi
per sq mi		Park acres
per 1,000		Near a park
½ mile		Outdoors
Alpine8%1.1under 1under 1%C
Alpine Northeast— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.

Questions about parks and trails in Alpine

How much of Alpine is conserved land?

8% of its land, against a typical 9% for a Wyoming town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Alpine?

31,595 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Alpine or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 43 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Alpine have?

Ahead of 34% 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 Alpine 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 →