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C−Outdoors
Outdoors in Buccaneer Bay

Buccaneer Bay has 5.3 miles of mapped trails, 4.0 for every square mile of land

OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Buccaneer Bay 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 18% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 1.3 sq mi of land
Trails
5.3 mi
4.0 per sq mi of land
Near a park
under 1%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Buccaneer Bay?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Buccaneer Bay have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Buccaneer Bay is ahead of 18% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.

C−
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Buccaneer Bay’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 18%
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Water is 6% of Buccaneer Bay’s area (0 of 1 square miles), so every share here is of land; over land and water together, the conserved share would read under 1%.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Buccaneer Bay. 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
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
1Pickleball

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

When to get out

September is the best month for walking in Buccaneer Bay

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)9.510.611.813.314.515.114.813.812.411.09.89.2
High (°F)333952647483878578665037
Rain (in)0.81.01.83.25.04.93.73.93.12.51.41.3

January is the driest month (0.8 in) and July the warmest (highs of 87 °F). 5.0 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 87 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Buccaneer Bay →

Questions about parks and trails in Buccaneer Bay

How much of Buccaneer Bay is conserved land?

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

Is there public land near Buccaneer Bay?

9,348 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Buccaneer Bay or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Buccaneer Bay have?

Ahead of 18% 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 Buccaneer Bay neighbors.

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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 →