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 Prospect Park
Virtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park. 10 acres are parks and preserves, 1.6 per 1,000 residents.
Ahead of 21% of U.S. towns · #466 of 468 in New Jersey. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Prospect Park?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Prospect Park have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Prospect Park is ahead of 21% of U.S. towns, #466 of 468 in New Jersey. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; trail miles pull it down.
New Jersey towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 11%; the U.S., 4%), so Prospect Park’s under 1% is ahead of 0% of New Jersey towns, while its trails per square mile lead 3% of them.
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
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it.
3 places to go in Prospect Park
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
3 playgrounds without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.
0.2 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 Prospect Park: April 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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 9.5 | 10.6 | 11.8 | 13.3 | 14.5 | 15.1 | 14.8 | 13.8 | 12.4 | 11.0 | 9.8 | 9.2 |
| High (°F) | 39 | 42 | 50 | 62 | 72 | 81 | 86 | 84 | 77 | 65 | 53 | 43 |
| Rain (in) | 3.4 | 2.7 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 4.3 |
February is the driest month (2.7 in) and July the warmest (highs of 86 °F). 4.7 inches fall in July, the wettest month. The climate in Prospect Park →
Prospect Park and its neighbors
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| Town | Conserved of land | Trail mi per sq mi | Park acres per 1,000 | Near a park ½ mile | Outdoors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prospect Park | under 1% | under 0.1 | 2 | 99%+ | C− |
| Paterson | 5% | 0.5 | 2 | 97% | B |
| Hawthorne | 5% | 1.1 | 7 | 94% | B+ |
| North Haledon | 11% | 0.8 | 11 | 93% | A− |
The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.
Questions about parks and trails in Prospect Park
How much of Prospect Park is conserved land?
under 1% 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 Prospect Park?
0.2 miles of bike routes are on the map: 0.1 of painted or protected lanes.
Is there public land near Prospect Park?
24,400 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Prospect Park or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 10 of them inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Prospect Park have?
Ahead of 21% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #466 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 Prospect Park 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 →