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Outdoors in Covert

6% of Covert’s land is conserved: 1,174 acres

0.3 miles of mapped trail cross Covert. 9% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 29 acres are parks and preserves, 14 per 1,000 residents.

Ahead of 28% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
6%
1,174 acres · of 31.4 sq mi of land
Trails
0.3 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
29 ac
14 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
9%
of residents within ½ mile
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Covert have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Covert is ahead of 28% of U.S. towns. Conserved land holds the grade up; trail miles pull it down.

C
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Covert’s overall grade.
Conserved land6% of the land · typical NY town 5% · U.S. 4%BTrails0.0 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (0 mi) · NY 0.4 · U.S. 0.4DPark land14 acres of park per 1,000 residents (29 acres) · NY 31 · U.S. 13BParks close to home9% of residents within a half mile of a park · NY 70% · U.S. 72%D
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 28%
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Water is 16% of Covert’s area (6 of 38 square miles), so every share here is of land; over land and water together, the conserved share would read 5%.

How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would range from C− 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.

12
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.

Finger Lakes National Forest

Nature preserve
1,146 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yetWebsite ↗

Taughannock Falls State Park

Managed by New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
7 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yetWebsite ↗
Who protects it

1,174 conserved acres

6% of Covert’s land. Water is left out: Covert has 31.4 square miles of land and 6.2 of water, so the share counts land only. Who manages Covert’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

U.S. Forest Service1,146 ac
State parks15 ac
Town or city12 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government1 ac
National Forest · 1,146 acState Park · 15 acLocal Park · 12 acLocal Resource Management Area · 1 ac
Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. Public access isn’t recorded for 1 of 4 parcels. The walks above are places people visit.

The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Finger Lakes National Forest
National Forest
U.S. Forest Service1,146Open
Taughannock Falls State Park
State Park
State parks15Open
Village Of Interlaken Land
Local Park
Town or city12Unknown
Trumansburg Village Lands
Local Resource Management Area
Other or Unknown Local Government1Open
Things to do

2 places to go in Covert

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

Waterfalls in Covert
Frontenac Falls
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

2 places on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).

History →
Covert Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1980
About it
First Baptist Church of InterlakenBuilding · listed 2002
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Covert: May 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)9.410.511.813.314.615.315.013.912.411.09.79.1
High (°F)333543576978828073614838
Rain (in)2.11.82.63.23.23.83.93.53.73.62.72.6

February is the driest month (1.8 in) and July the warmest (highs of 82 °F). 3.9 inches fall in July, the wettest month. The climate in Covert →

Next door

Covert and its neighbors

Tap a town to see its outdoors.

Ulysses14 miLansing10 miLodi6.2 miOvid1.6 miCovert0.3 mi
TownConserved
of land		Trail mi
per sq mi		Park acres
per 1,000		Near a park
½ mile		Outdoors
Covert6%under 0.1149%C
Lansing2%0.21155%C+
Ovid2%0.112345%B−
Ulysses5%0.419355%B+
Lodi19%0.2923%B−

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

Questions about parks and trails in Covert

How much of Covert is conserved land?

6% of its land, against a typical 5% for a New York town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Are dogs allowed on Covert’s trails?

Finger Lakes National Forest and Taughannock Falls State Park don’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.

Is there public land near Covert?

21,101 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Covert or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 1,182 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Covert have?

Ahead of 28% 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 Covert 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 →