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Tome Jail from PlazaPhoto: AzaniahT · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Outdoors in Tome

Few parks or trails are on the map in Tome

2 acres are parks and preserves, 0.9 per 1,000 residents. 3.6 miles of mapped trail cross Tome, 0.7 per square mile of land. 19% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

Ahead of 26% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
1%
53 acres · of 5.5 sq mi of land
Trails
3.6 mi
0.7 per sq mi of land
Park land
2 ac
0.9 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
19%
of residents within ½ mile
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Tome have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Tome is ahead of 26% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; park acres per resident pull it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Tome’s overall grade.
Conserved land1% of the land · typical NM town 4% · U.S. 4%C+Trails0.7 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (4 mi) · NM 0.9 · U.S. 0.4B+Park land0.9 acres of park per 1,000 residents (2 acres) · NM 7 · U.S. 13DParks close to home19% of residents within a half mile of a park · NM 67% · U.S. 72%C−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 26%
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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.

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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Pick a walk

Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.

Plaza de Tome

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot
Who protects it

53 conserved acres

1% of Tome’s land. Who manages Tome’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

USDA easements (NRCS)49 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits34 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government19 ac
Agricultural Easement · 102 ac
Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 53 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. The walks above are places people visit.

Things to do

1 places to go in Tome

Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.

Playgrounds in Tome

1 playground without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see it.

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
2Basketball

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

History along the way

2 places on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service). The map also marks 2 historic points from OpenStreetMap: plaques, memorials and old buildings.

History →
Tome JailBuilding · listed 1977
About it
El Cerro Tome SiteSite · listed 1996
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Tome: April and May

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)10.110.911.913.014.014.514.313.412.311.210.39.8
High (°F)525967748494949286756151
Rain (in)0.40.50.50.50.40.61.61.71.10.90.60.6

January is the driest month (0.4 in) and July the warmest (highs of 94 °F). 1.7 inches fall in August, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 94 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Tome →

Next door

Tome and its neighbors

Tome has the second most mapped trails of the 3 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.

Los Chaves8.8 miTome3.6 miAdelino1.8 mi
TownConserved
of land		Trail mi
per sq mi		Park acres
per 1,000		Near a park
½ mile		Outdoors
Tome1%0.7119%C
Los Chavesunder 1%0.8under 11%D
Adelino— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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

Questions about parks and trails in Tome

How much of Tome is conserved land?

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

Are dogs allowed on Tome’s trails?

Plaza de Tome doesn’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.

Is there public land near Tome?

9,423 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Tome or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 2 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Tome have?

Ahead of 26% 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 Tome 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 →