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Beverly-Edgewater Park StationPhoto: Adam Moss · CC BY-SA 2.0
C+Outdoors
Outdoors in Beverly

Virtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park in Beverly

Virtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park. 9 acres are parks and preserves, 3.6 per 1,000 residents. 3% of Beverly’s land is conserved, about 9 acres.

Ahead of 38% of U.S. towns · #447 of 468 in New Jersey. What drives it

Conserved land
3%
9 acres · of 0.5 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
9 ac
3.6 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
99%+
of residents within ½ mile
Lakes & rivers
1

What kind of outdoors town is Beverly?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Beverly have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Beverly is ahead of 38% of U.S. towns, #447 of 468 in New Jersey. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; trail miles pull it down.

C+
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Beverly’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 38%
LessMore
New Jersey towns of 2,500+ (468)Ahead of 4%

New Jersey towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 11%; the U.S., 4%), so Beverly’s 3% is ahead of 13% of New Jersey towns, while its trails per square mile lead 3% of them.

Water is 28% of Beverly’s area (0 of 1 square miles), so every share here is of land; over land and water together, the conserved share would read 2%.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Beverly. 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 C− 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
Who protects it

9 conserved acres

3% of Beverly’s land. Water is left out: Beverly has 0.5 square miles of land and 0.2 of water, so the share counts land only. Who manages Beverly’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Town or city9 ac
Local Park · 9 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Sewage Authority Parki
Local Park
Town or city6Open
City Park
Local Park
Town or city2Open
Playground
Local Park
Town or city1Open
Trails & water

1 lakes & rivers

Lakes & rivers tap for 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
2Baseball

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 →
St. Stephens Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 1999
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Beverly: April to June and August

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)9.610.611.813.214.415.014.713.712.411.19.99.3
High (°F)424553657483888679675646
Rain (in)3.42.84.13.83.84.34.74.44.13.83.34.2

February is the driest month (2.8 in) and July the warmest (highs of 88 °F). 4.7 inches fall in July, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 88 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Beverly →

Next door

Beverly and its neighbors

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
Beverly3%under 0.1499%+C+
Edgewater Park Township6%0.21399%B+
Delanco Township19%1.96194%A+

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

Questions about parks and trails in Beverly

How much of Beverly is conserved land?

3% of its land, against a typical 11% for a New Jersey town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Beverly?

21,350 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Beverly or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 9 of them inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Beverly have?

Ahead of 38% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #447 of 468 in New Jersey. 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 Beverly 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 →