Outdoor fitness equipment and fitness trails have been growing more common over the past couple of decades, and while parks are
most likely to have such amenities among their offerings, in 2025, college respondents were more likely than parks to be planning to add outdoor fitness.
Some 40.1% of park respondents in 2025 said they currently have outdoor fitness equipment, up from 32.6% in 2022. That makes them around twice as likely to host outdoor fitness as colleges, where 19.9% of respondents in 2025 said they have outdoor fitness equipment, a number which has changed very little over the past few years. Likewise, college respondents were around twice as likely to have outdoor fitness as all the remaining respondents combined, 10% of whom said they have outdoor fitness.
That said, college respondents in 2025 were more likely than park respondents to be planning to add fitness trails and outdoor fitness equipment. Some 16.3% of college respondents had such plans, compared with 13.4% of park respondents, and 10.6% of all other respondents combined.
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