Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Virtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park in Ocean Gate
Virtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park. 1.2 miles of mapped trail cross Ocean Gate, 2.7 per square mile of land. 10 acres are parks and preserves, 5.9 per 1,000 residents.
Ahead of 78% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Ocean Gate?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Ocean Gate have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Ocean Gate is ahead of 78% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; park acres per resident pull it down.
New Jersey towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 11%; the U.S., 4%), so Ocean Gate’s 3% is ahead of 14% of New Jersey towns, while its trails per square mile lead 95% of them.
Water is 17% of Ocean Gate’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%.
PAD-US, OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), Census 2025 Gazetteer and 2020 blocks; details in Sources below. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
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9 conserved acres
3% of Ocean Gate’s land. Water is left out: Ocean Gate has 0.5 square miles of land and 0.1 of water, so the share counts land only. Who manages Ocean Gate’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willis Jones First Aid Park Local Park | Town or city | 6 | Open |
| Unknown Park Local Park | Town or city | 2 | Open |
| Ocean Gate Recreation Local Park | Town or city | 1 | Open |
4 places to go in Ocean Gate
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
2 swimming spots without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.
1 playground without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see it.
1 boat launch without a name on the map.
0.5 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
The best walking months in Ocean Gate: April to June
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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 9.6 | 10.6 | 11.8 | 13.2 | 14.4 | 15.0 | 14.7 | 13.7 | 12.4 | 11.1 | 9.9 | 9.3 |
| High (°F) | 42 | 44 | 50 | 61 | 70 | 80 | 85 | 83 | 77 | 66 | 56 | 47 |
| Rain (in) | 3.9 | 3.0 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 4.6 |
February is the driest month (3.0 in) and July the warmest (highs of 85 °F). 4.7 inches fall in July, the wettest month. The climate in Ocean Gate →
Questions about parks and trails in Ocean Gate
How much of Ocean Gate 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.
Where can I bike in Ocean Gate?
0.5 miles of bike routes are on the map: 0.5 of off-road paths.
Is there public land near Ocean Gate?
32,766 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Ocean Gate or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 10 of them inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Ocean Gate have?
Ahead of 78% 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 Ocean Gate neighbors.
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 →