Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Yates
10% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 2.2 miles of mapped trail cross Yates, 0.1 per square mile of land. 10 acres are parks and preserves, 4.2 per 1,000 residents.
Ahead of 8% of U.S. towns · #754 of 758 in New York. What drives it
How much outdoors does Yates have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Yates is ahead of 8% of U.S. towns, #754 of 758 in New York. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; park acres per resident come closest.
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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10 conserved acres
under 1% of Yates’ land. Who manages Yates’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. Public access isn’t recorded for 2 of 2 parcels. The walks above are places people visit.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Village Of Lyndonville Land Local Park | Town or city | 6 | Unknown |
| Town of Yates Land Local Park | Town or city | 5 | Unknown |
2 places to go in Yates
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
2 playgrounds without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.
1 lakes & rivers
0.0 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
1 place on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The best walking months in Yates: May 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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 9.3 | 10.4 | 11.8 | 13.4 | 14.7 | 15.4 | 15.1 | 13.9 | 12.4 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 9.0 |
| High (°F) | 32 | 34 | 41 | 52 | 65 | 74 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 59 | 47 | 38 |
| Rain (in) | 2.3 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.3 | 3.3 | 2.8 | 2.7 |
February is the driest month (2.0 in) and July the warmest (highs of 79 °F). 3.3 inches fall in October, the wettest month. The climate in Yates →
Yates and its neighbors
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Questions about parks and trails in Yates
How much of Yates 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 Yates?
2,703 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Yates or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 10 of them inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Yates have?
Ahead of 8% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #754 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 Yates 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 →