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Outdoors in Lake Como

Virtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park in Lake Como

Virtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park. 0.4 miles of mapped trail cross Lake Como, 1.6 per square mile of land. 12 acres are parks and preserves, 7.4 per 1,000 residents.

Ahead of 79% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
3%
4 acres · of 0.3 sq mi of land
Trails
0.4 mi
1.6 per sq mi of land
Park land
12 ac
7.4 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
99%+
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Lake Como?

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

Parks close to homeVirtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park.A trail town1.6 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land, more than 90% of U.S. towns.
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Lake Como have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Lake Como is ahead of 79% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; park acres per resident pull it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Lake Como’s overall grade.
Conserved land3% of the land · typical NJ town 11% · U.S. 4%B−Trails1.6 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (0 mi) · NJ 0.7 · U.S. 0.4APark land7.4 acres of park per 1,000 residents (12 acres) · NJ 25 · U.S. 13C+Parks close to homeVirtually all residents within a half mile of a park · NJ 98% · U.S. 72%A+
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 79%
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New Jersey towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 11%; the U.S., 4%), so Lake Como’s 3% is ahead of 16% of New Jersey towns, while its trails per square mile lead 83% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Lake Como. 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 B to A. 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

4 conserved acres

3% of Lake Como’s land. Who manages Lake Como’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Town or city4 ac
Local Recreation Area · 4 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Municipal Playground
Local Recreation Area
Town or city4Open
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
1Soccer
1Basketball

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

When to get out

The best walking months in Lake Como: April to July

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)9.610.611.813.214.415.014.813.712.411.19.99.3
High (°F)424450607079858377665646
Rain (in)3.63.14.43.83.94.14.34.73.94.13.44.4

February is the driest month (3.1 in) and July the warmest (highs of 85 °F). 4.7 inches fall in August, the wettest month. The climate in Lake Como →

Next door

Lake Como and its neighbors

Tap a town to see its outdoors.

Spring Lake2.9 miBelmar2.0 miLake Como0.4 mi
TownConserved
of land		Trail mi
per sq mi		Park acres
per 1,000		Near a park
½ mile		Outdoors
Lake Como3%1.6799%+A−
Spring Lake23%2.27699%+A+
Belmar11%1.91499%+A

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

Questions about parks and trails in Lake Como

How much of Lake Como 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 Lake Como?

13,883 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Lake Como or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 12 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Lake Como have?

Ahead of 79% 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 Lake Como 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 →