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East Genoa Methodist Episcopal ChurchEast Genoa Methodist Episcopal Church · Photo: Doncram · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Outdoors in Genoa

Few parks or trails are on the map in Genoa

0.2 miles of mapped trail cross Genoa. 11% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 10 acres are parks and preserves, 5.8 per 1,000 residents.

Ahead of 8% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
9 acres · of 39.6 sq mi of land
Trails
0.2 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
10 ac
5.8 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
11%
of residents within ½ mile
Lakes & rivers
1
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Genoa have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Genoa is ahead of 8% of U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; park acres per resident come closest.

D
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Genoa’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 8%
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Water is 8% of Genoa’s area (4 of 43 square miles), so every share here is of land; over land and water together, the conserved share would read under 1%.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Genoa. 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 D− to D. 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

9 conserved acres

under 1% of Genoa’s land. Water is left out: Genoa has 39.6 square miles of land and 3.6 of water, so the share counts land only. Who manages Genoa’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Town or city9 ac
Local Park · 9 ac
Good to know

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

The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Genoa , Town of Land
Local Park
Town or city9Unknown
Trails & water

1 lakes & rivers

Lakes & rivers tap for 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

1 place on the National Register

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

History →
East Genoa Methodist Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 2002
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Genoa: 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)313442556876807972594736
Rain (in)2.42.02.83.43.44.04.13.73.93.92.92.9

February is the driest month (2.0 in) and July the warmest (highs of 80 °F). 4.1 inches fall in July, the wettest month. The climate in Genoa →

Next door

Genoa and its neighbors

Tap a town to see its outdoors.

TownConserved
of land
Trail mi
per sq mi
Park acres
per 1,000
Near a park
½ mile
Outdoors
Genoaunder 1%under 0.1611%D
Lansing2%0.21155%C+
Veniceunder 1%under 0.194%D
Locke10%0.177432%B
Ledyard4%0.215017%B−
Ovid2%0.112345%B−
Covert6%under 0.1149%C

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

Questions about parks and trails in Genoa

How much of Genoa is conserved land?

under 1% 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.

Is there public land near Genoa?

19,353 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Genoa or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 10 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Genoa have?

Ahead of 8% 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 Genoa 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 →