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United States border at Naco, MexicoPhoto: Phillip Capper from Wellington, New Zealand · CC BY 2.0
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Outdoors in Naco

Naco has 5.6 miles of mapped trails, 1.7 for every square mile of land

54% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

Ahead of 28% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 3.2 sq mi of land
Trails
5.6 mi
1.7 per sq mi of land
Near a park
54%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Naco?

Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Naco have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Naco is ahead of 28% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; park acres per resident pull it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Naco’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 28%
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Arizona towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 14%; the U.S., 4%), so Naco’s under 1% is ahead of 3% of Arizona towns, while its trails per square mile lead 74% of them.

How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would range from D to B−. Trails and many small parks come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by volunteers, so coverage varies from town to town; the half mile is a straight line from each census block, so a river or highway in the way isn’t counted against it.

PAD-US, OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), Census 2025 Gazetteer and 2020 blocks; details in Sources below. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →

The map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it.

Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Biking & sports

0.0 miles of bike routes

Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

Courts & fields
1Baseball

Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.

History along the way

2 places on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).

History →
Naco Border StationBuilding · listed 1991
About it
Camp Naco Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2012
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Naco: April and May

NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals for the town and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 59 to 86 °F and little rain for the place.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)10.311.011.912.913.714.214.013.312.311.310.510.1
High (°F)616571788695929088807061
Rain (in)0.90.80.60.20.20.53.53.51.70.70.71.0

May is the driest month (0.2 in) and June the warmest (highs of 95 °F). 3.5 inches fall in August, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 95 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Naco →

Questions about parks and trails in Naco

How much of Naco is conserved land?

under 1% of its land, against a typical 14% for an Arizona town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Naco?

15,663 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Naco or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Naco have?

Ahead of 28% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade. The grade combines the share of land that is conserved, miles of mapped trail per square mile of land, park acres per 1,000 residents and the share of residents within a half mile of a park. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

Trail talk

Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Naco neighbors.

Town Square →
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Sources

Where this page comes from

Conserved and public land: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), service updated July 2026. Parks, trails, playgrounds, beaches and other places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), map data as of 2026-10-28. Land and water area: Census 2025 Gazetteer. Residents near a park: 2020 Census blocks. National Register: National Park Service. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →