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Dixmont Corner ChurchDixmont Corner Church · Photo: Skoopy · Public domain
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Outdoors in Dixmont

Dixmont has 18 miles of mapped trails, 0.5 for every square mile of land

OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Dixmont yet. Know a trail or a town park? Anyone can add it to OpenStreetMap, and it shows up here on the next refresh.

Ahead of 9% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 36.3 sq mi of land
Trails
18 mi
0.5 per sq mi of land
Near a park
under 1%
of residents within ½ mile
Highest peak
1,165 ft
Mount Harris

What kind of outdoors town is Dixmont?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Dixmont have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Dixmont is ahead of 9% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Dixmont’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 9%
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NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Dixmont. OpenStreetMap is mapped by volunteers and coverage varies from town to town, so a town with unmapped parks scores low on them.
How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would range from D− to C−. 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
Things to do

2 places to go in Dixmont

Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.

Peaks in Dixmont
Mount Harris1,165 ft elevation
Directions
Peaked Mountain1,152 ft elevation
Directions
Trails & water

1 named trail

Named trails
Snowmobile ITS 837.4 mi
History along the way

3 places on the National Register

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

History →
Bussey, Louis I., SchoolBuilding · listed 1976
About it
Dixmont Corner ChurchBuilding · listed 1983
About it
Dixmont Town HouseBuilding · listed 2014
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Dixmont: May to 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)9.210.411.813.414.815.615.214.012.410.99.58.8
High (°F)283139526473787769574433
Rain (in)3.62.93.63.93.64.13.43.43.85.14.44.3

February is the driest month (2.9 in) and July the warmest (highs of 78 °F). 5.1 inches fall in October, the wettest month. The climate in Dixmont →

Next door

Dixmont and its neighbors

Dixmont has the most mapped trails of the 5 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.

TownConserved
of land
Trail mi
per sq mi
Park acres
per 1,000
Near a park
½ mile
Outdoors
Dixmontunder 1%0.5under 1under 1%D
Troy7%0.4under 1under 1%C−
Etnaunder 1%0.379%C−
Jackson— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Newburghunder 1%0.2under 1under 1%D

The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.

Questions about parks and trails in Dixmont

How much of Dixmont is conserved land?

under 1% of its land, against a typical 6% for a Maine town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Dixmont?

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

How much outdoors does Dixmont have?

Ahead of 9% 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 Dixmont 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 →