Photo: Mitchazenia · CC BY-SA 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in New Boston Township
2% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 0.7 miles of mapped trail cross New Boston Township. 6% of New Boston Township’s land is conserved, about 1,856 acres.
Ahead of 12% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is New Boston Township?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does New Boston Township have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, New Boston Township is ahead of 12% of U.S. towns. Conserved land holds the grade up; park acres per resident pull it down.
Water is 6% of New Boston Township’s area (3 of 54 square miles), so every share here is of land; over land and water together, the conserved share would read 5%.
PAD-US, OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), Census 2025 Gazetteer and 2020 blocks; details in Sources below. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
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1,856 conserved acres
6% of New Boston Township’s land. Water is left out: New Boston Township has 50.7 square miles of land and 3.1 of water, so the share counts land only. Who manages New Boston Township’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ms Rv Pools 11-22 Recreation Area Recreation Management Area | Army Corps of Engineers | 1,174 | Open |
| Mississippi River - Muscatine Private Conservation | Private owners | 989 | Restricted |
2 places to go in New Boston Township
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
Plus 1 boat launch without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see it.
5 lakes & rivers
0.0 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
5 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The best walking months in New Boston Township: April and September
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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 9.5 | 10.6 | 11.8 | 13.3 | 14.5 | 15.1 | 14.9 | 13.8 | 12.4 | 11.0 | 9.8 | 9.2 |
| High (°F) | 31 | 36 | 49 | 63 | 73 | 82 | 85 | 83 | 77 | 64 | 49 | 36 |
| Rain (in) | 1.4 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 3.6 | 4.9 | 5.0 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 1.8 |
January is the driest month (1.4 in) and July the warmest (highs of 85 °F). 5.0 inches fall in June, the wettest month. The climate in New Boston Township →
Questions about parks and trails in New Boston Township
How much of New Boston Township is conserved land?
6% of its land, against a typical 4% for an Illinois town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.
Is there public land near New Boston Township?
27,820 acres of parks and open public land lie inside New Boston Township or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 1,196 of them inside the town line.
How much outdoors does New Boston Township have?
Ahead of 12% 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 New Boston Township neighbors.
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 →