With July being National Parks and Recreation Month, and maintaining a healthy weight through exercise saving people nearly $1,900 in health care costs each year, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2025’s Best & Worst Cities for Recreation, as well as expert commentary.

To highlight the benefits of recreational activities for consumers and economies across the country, WalletHub compared the 100 largest U.S. cities across 47 key indicators of recreation-friendliness. For each city, we examined the accessibility of entertainment and recreational facilities, the quality of parks and the weather.

Best vs. Worst

• San Francisco and Boston have the highest share of the population with walkable park access, which is 3.1 times higher than in Indianapolis, the city with the lowest.
• Las Vegas has the most playgrounds per square root of the population, which is 24.4 times more than in Gilberth, Arizona, the city with the fewest.
• Buffalo, New York has the highest spending on parks per capita, which is 11.5 times higher than in Chula Vista, California, the city with the lowest.
• San Francisco has the most bike rental facilities per square root of the population, which is 39.5 times more than in Fresno, California, the city with the fewest.

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