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Outdoors in Newburgh

Newburgh has 7.4 miles of mapped trails, 0.2 for every square mile of land

OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Newburgh 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 6% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 31.0 sq mi of land
Trails
7.4 mi
0.2 per sq mi of land
Near a park
under 1%
of residents within ½ mile
Highest peak
1,043 ft
Piper Mountain
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Newburgh have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Newburgh is ahead of 6% of U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; trail miles come closest.

D
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Newburgh’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 6%
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NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Newburgh. 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 D. 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

6 places to go in Newburgh

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

Peaks in Newburgh
Piper Mountain1,043 ft elevation
Directions
Frank WEst Mountain984 ft elevation
Directions
Davis Hill577 ft elevation
Directions
Kelly Mountain561 ft elevation
Directions
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
1Basketball

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

History along the way

1 place on the National Register

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

History →
Jabez Knowlton StoreBuilding · listed 1978
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Newburgh: 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)283139526573797769574534
Rain (in)3.72.93.63.93.64.13.33.33.95.14.44.3

February is the driest month (2.9 in) and July the warmest (highs of 79 °F). 5.1 inches fall in October, the wettest month. The climate in Newburgh →

Next door

Newburgh and its neighbors

Newburgh has the second most mapped trails of the 4 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
Newburghunder 1%0.2under 1under 1%D
Hampden3%under 0.11031%C
Carmel1%under 0.1under 1under 1%D
Dixmontunder 1%0.5under 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 Newburgh

How much of Newburgh 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 Newburgh?

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

How much outdoors does Newburgh have?

Ahead of 6% 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 Newburgh 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 →