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Outdoors in Bakersfield

Bakersfield ranks T#111 of 134 US cities for outdoors, with a Outdoors score of 17 — Quiet. That puts it in the 18th percentile nationally and #12 of 18 in California.

Outdoors score
17
Quiet
National rank
T#111 of 134
In California
#12 of 18
Percentile
18th

The typical city scores 50 for outdoors; Bakersfield sits 33 points below the median.

How outdoors is measured

Parks, beaches and easy access to nature.

Data sources: OpenStreetMap parks, nature reserves, playgrounds and beaches, plus National Park Service units and Recreation.gov federal facilities.

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Ranked around Bakersfield

  1. #109 Houston, TX 19
  2. #110 Dallas, TX 18
  3. T#111 Bakersfield, CA — this page 17
  4. #113 Scottsdale, AZ 16
  5. #114 Irving, TX 15

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Top US cities for outdoors

  1. #1 Aspen, CO 93
  2. T#2 Gatlinburg, TN 92
  3. T#2 Stowe, VT 92
  4. T#2 Telluride, CO 92
  5. T#5 Jackson, WY 91

More about Bakersfield

Bakersfield scores 0 overall (Quiet) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: