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Outdoors in Ovid

Ovid has 257 acres of parks, 123 for every 1,000 residents

1.6 miles of mapped trail cross Ovid, 0.1 per square mile of land. 45% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 2% of Ovid’s land is conserved, about 504 acres.

Ahead of 46% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
2%
504 acres · of 30.9 sq mi of land
Trails
1.6 mi
0.1 per sq mi of land
Park land
257 ac
123 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
45%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Ovid?

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

Room to roam123 acres of park per 1,000 residents; the typical U.S. town has 13.History along the way5 places on the National Register.
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Ovid have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Ovid is ahead of 46% of U.S. towns. Park acres per resident hold the grade up; trail miles pull it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Ovid’s overall grade.
Conserved land2% of the land · typical NY town 5% · U.S. 4%B−Trails0.1 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (2 mi) · NY 0.4 · U.S. 0.4C−Park land123 acres of park per 1,000 residents (257 acres) · NY 31 · U.S. 13AParks close to home45% of residents within a half mile of a park · NY 70% · U.S. 72%C+
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 46%
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Water is 20% of Ovid’s area (8 of 39 square miles), so every share here is of land; over land and water together, the conserved share would read 2%.

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

Willard Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
151 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yetWebsite ↗
Who protects it

504 conserved acres

2% of Ovid’s land. Water is left out: Ovid has 30.9 square miles of land and 7.9 of water, so the share counts land only. Who manages Ovid’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

State parks249 ac
State conservation154 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits87 ac
Town or city7 ac
Regional agency7 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government1 ac
State Park · 249 acState Resource Management Area · 154 acUnknown Easement · 86 acLocal Park · 7 acLocal Other or Unknown · 7 ac
Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 86 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. Public access isn’t recorded for 3 of 10 parcels. The walks above are places people visit.

The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Bonavista State Park
State Park
State parks249Open
Willard Wma
State Resource Management Area
State conservation154Open
South Seneca Central School Land
Local Other or Unknown
Regional agency7Unknown
Village Of Ovid Land
Local Park
Town or city6Unknown
Town Of Ovid Land
Local Park
Town or city1Unknown
Girl Scouts of the United States of America Lands
Private Other or Unknown
Land trusts & nonprofits1Closed
Trumansburg Village Lands
Local Resource Management Area
Other or Unknown Local Government1Open
Things to do

2 places to go in Ovid

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

Waterfalls in Ovid
Oak Tree 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
3Baseball
1Tennis
1Basketball

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

History along the way

5 places on the National Register

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

History →
Willard Asylum for the Chronic InsaneBuilding · listed 1975
About it
Seneca County Courthouse Complex at OvidBuilding · listed 1976
About it
Aaron Wilson HouseBuilding · listed 2001
About it
Ford, Edith B., Memorial LibraryBuilding · listed 2018
About it
Jones, Hannah and George W. HouseBuilding · listed 2020
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Ovid: May, August and 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)9.410.511.813.314.615.315.013.912.411.09.79.1
High (°F)323442556876807972594737
Rain (in)2.11.92.53.03.33.74.03.43.63.72.62.6

February is the driest month (1.9 in) and July the warmest (highs of 80 °F). 4.0 inches fall in July, the wettest month. The climate in Ovid →

Next door

Ovid and its neighbors

Tap a town to see its outdoors.

Lodi6.2 miTorrey5.4 miRomulus4.9 miOvid1.6 miCovert0.3 mi
TownConserved
of land		Trail mi
per sq mi		Park acres
per 1,000		Near a park
½ mile		Outdoors
Ovid2%0.112345%B−
Romulus9%0.171937%B
Covert6%under 0.1149%C
Lodi19%0.2923%B−
Torrey2%0.213836%B−

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

Questions about parks and trails in Ovid

How much of Ovid is conserved land?

2% 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 Ovid’s trails?

Willard Wildlife Management Area doesn’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.

Is there public land near Ovid?

16,914 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Ovid or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 412 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Ovid have?

Ahead of 46% 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 Ovid 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 →