Overview
The Trust for Public Land’s ParkScore® index is the national gold standard to compare park systems across the 100 most populated cities in the United States. Published annually, the index measures park systems according to fourteen measures across five categories: access, investment, amenities, acreage, and equity.
For each of the fourteen measures, points are awarded on a relative basis, based on how a city compares to the 100 largest U.S. cities. Points are assigned by breaking the data range established by our national sample into brackets, with the lowest bracket receiving the least points and the highest bracket receiving the most points.
About
About the Trust for Public Land
The Trust for Public Land was founded in 1972 on the conviction that all people need access to nature and the outdoors, close to home, in the cities and communities where they live, as a matter of health, equity, and justice.