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Outdoors in Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge ranks T#107 of 134 US cities for outdoors, with a Outdoors score of 20 — Quiet. That puts it in the 21st percentile nationally and #2 of 2 in Louisiana.

Outdoors score
20
Quiet
National rank
T#107 of 134
In Louisiana
#2 of 2
Percentile
21st

The typical city scores 50 for outdoors; Baton Rouge sits 30 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.

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Baton Rouge

  1. #105 Lexington, KY 22
  2. #106 New Orleans, LA 21
  3. T#107 Baton Rouge, LA — this page 20
  4. #109 Houston, TX 19
  5. #110 Dallas, TX 18

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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 Baton Rouge

Baton Rouge scores 28 overall (Quiet) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: