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Drive time to the nearest state park
State parks and state recreation areas from the federal protected-areas database. Fishing access sites, boat launches and wildlife areas that states file under the same designations are left out.
- 3,749
- state parks, with 15,120 ways in
- 20 min
- median drive for US residents
- 34%
- of residents within 15 min
- 73%
- within 30 min
- 97%
- within an hour
Counties are shaded by the drive time within which half of their residents reach the nearest one. Dots mark the state parks.
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Source
- Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US) 4.1U.S. Geological Survey · Public domain
- Parking lots, trailheads and entrancesOpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Retrieved Oct 2026. Each park counts once; its parking lots, trailheads, entrances and visitor centers are its ways in.
How drive times are measured
Every 2020 census block group (about 240,000 neighborhoods) starts from its population center and drives the OpenStreetMap road network to the nearest of the state parks. Speeds come from posted limits where they are mapped and typical speeds by road type elsewhere, with a small delay at each intersection. They are free-flow times: no traffic. Ferries count at their scheduled duration.
Counties and tracts show the population-weighted median of their block groups, so half of residents are at or under the time shown. Searches stop at 3 hours. Puerto Rico and a few dozen roadless places in Alaska aren't covered.
- Road networkOpenStreetMap contributors (Geofabrik extract) · ODbL
- Centers of Population by block group, 2020U.S. Census Bureau · Public domain