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Outdoors in Memphis

Memphis ranks #126 of 134 US cities for outdoors, with a Outdoors score of 6 — Quiet. That puts it in the 7th percentile nationally and #3 of 3 in Tennessee.

Outdoors score
6
Quiet
National rank
#126 of 134
In Tennessee
#3 of 3
Percentile
7th

The typical city scores 50 for outdoors; Memphis sits 44 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 Memphis

  1. T#123 Stockton, CA 8
  2. #125 Winston-Salem, NC 7
  3. #126 Memphis, TN — this page 6
  4. T#127 New York, NY 5
  5. T#127 Newark, NJ 5

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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 Memphis

Memphis scores 14 overall (Quiet) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: