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Outdoors in Milan

Few parks or trails are on the map in Milan

2 acres are parks and preserves, 1.1 per 1,000 residents. 0.2 miles of mapped trail cross Milan, 0.2 per square mile of land. 73% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

Ahead of 21% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
1 acre · of 1.2 sq mi of land
Trails
0.2 mi
0.2 per sq mi of land
Park land
2 ac
1.1 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
73%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Milan?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Milan have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Milan is ahead of 21% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; park acres per resident pull it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Milan’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 21%
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NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Milan. 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 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.

Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Who protects it

1 conserved acres

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

Town or city1 ac
Local Park · 1 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Milan Square
Local Park
Town or city1Open
Things to do

1 places to go in Milan

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

Playgrounds in Milan

1 playground without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see it.

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
1Basketball

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

History along the way

6 places on the National Register, one a National Historic Landmark

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.

History →
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Thomas Alva Edison BirthplaceNational Historic Landmark · Building · listed 1966
About it
Ebenezer Andrews HouseBuilding · listed 1974
About it
Jenkins-Perry HouseBuilding · listed 1974
About it
J. C. Lockwood HouseBuilding · listed 1974
About it
Milan Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1975
About it
Mitchell Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1975
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Milan: 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)9.510.611.813.314.515.114.913.812.411.09.89.2
High (°F)343746597180848276635039
Rain (in)2.62.22.83.83.84.13.83.43.43.22.82.5

February is the driest month (2.2 in) and July the warmest (highs of 84 °F). 4.1 inches fall in June, the wettest month. The climate in Milan →

Questions about parks and trails in Milan

How much of Milan is conserved land?

under 1% of its land, against a typical 3% for an Ohio town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Milan?

3,505 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Milan or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 2 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Milan have?

Ahead of 21% 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 Milan 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 →