Photo: Lvklock · CC BY-SA 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Scipio
0.8 miles of mapped trail cross Scipio.
Ahead of 5% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Scipio?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Scipio have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Scipio is ahead of 5% of U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; conserved land comes closest.
Water is 7% of Scipio’s area (3 of 39 square miles), so every share here is of land; over land and water together, the conserved share would read under 1%.
PAD-US, OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), Census 2025 Gazetteer and 2020 blocks; details in Sources below. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
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99 conserved acres
under 1% of Scipio’s land. Water is left out: Scipio has 36.6 square miles of land and 2.8 of water, so the share counts land only. Who manages Scipio’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 99 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. The walks above are places people visit.
1 places to go in Scipio
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
1 lakes & rivers
4 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.
The best walking months in Scipio: 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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 9.4 | 10.5 | 11.8 | 13.3 | 14.6 | 15.3 | 15.0 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 11.0 | 9.7 | 9.0 |
| High (°F) | 31 | 33 | 41 | 54 | 67 | 76 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 59 | 46 | 36 |
| Rain (in) | 2.7 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
February is the driest month (2.2 in) and July the warmest (highs of 79 °F). 4.2 inches fall in July, the wettest month. The climate in Scipio →
Scipio and its neighbors
Scipio has the second most mapped trails of the 4 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.
Questions about parks and trails in Scipio
How much of Scipio 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 Scipio?
10,754 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Scipio or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Scipio have?
Ahead of 5% 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 Scipio neighbors.
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 →