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New Hyde Park Village Hall, New Hyde Park, Long Island, New York October 2, 2021 APhoto: AITFFan1 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Outdoors in New Hyde Park

Virtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park in New Hyde Park

Virtually every resident lives within a half mile of a park. 8 acres are parks and preserves, 0.8 per 1,000 residents.

Ahead of 26% of U.S. towns · #715 of 758 in New York. What drives it

Conserved land
1%
4 acres · of 0.8 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
8 ac
0.8 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
99%+
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is New Hyde Park?

Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does New Hyde Park have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, New Hyde Park is ahead of 26% of U.S. towns, #715 of 758 in New York. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; trail miles pull it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of New Hyde Park’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 26%
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New York towns of 2,500+ (758)Ahead of 6%
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.

123
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.

New Hyde Park Memorial Park

Managed by Incorporated Village of New Hyde Park
5 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet

Nuzzi Field

Managed by Incorporated Village of New Hyde Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot

Floral Park Recreation Center

Managed by Incorporated Village of Floral Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lotWebsite ↗
Who protects it

4 conserved acres

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

Town or city4 ac
Local Park · 4 ac
Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. Public access isn’t recorded for 1 of 2 parcels. The walks above are places people visit.

The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
INC VILLAGE OF NEW HYDE PARK Land
Local Park
Town or city4Open
INC VILLAGE OF FLORAL PARK Land
Local Park
Town or city1Unknown
Things to do

9 places to go in New Hyde Park

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

Playgrounds in New Hyde Park

9 playgrounds without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.

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
5Baseball
4Basketball
2Pickleball
2Tennis
1Soccer

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

When to get out

The best walking months in New Hyde 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)9.610.611.813.214.415.114.813.812.411.09.89.3
High (°F)404350617180868477655545
Rain (in)3.43.04.33.93.64.03.94.24.04.13.44.3

February is the driest month (3.0 in) and July the warmest (highs of 86 °F). 4.3 inches fall in December, the wettest month. The climate in New Hyde Park →

Next door

New Hyde Park 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
New Hyde Park1%under 0.1199%+C
Garden City4%1.3899%+A−
Floral Park3%0.6299%+B
North New Hyde Park— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Stewart Manor3%under 0.1199%+C+

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

Questions about parks and trails in New Hyde Park

How much of New Hyde Park is conserved land?

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.

Are dogs allowed on New Hyde Park’s trails?

New Hyde Park Memorial Park and Nuzzi Field don’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.

Is there public land near New Hyde Park?

19,952 acres of parks and open public land lie inside New Hyde Park or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 8 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does New Hyde Park have?

Ahead of 26% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #715 of 758 in New York. 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 New Hyde Park 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 →