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Outdoors in Oxford Township

Oxford Township has 10 miles of mapped trails, 0.4 for every square mile of land

OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Oxford Township yet. Know a trail or a town park? Anyone can add it to OpenStreetMap, and it shows up here on the next refresh.

Ahead of 12% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
1%
138 acres · of 25.2 sq mi of land
Trails
10 mi
0.4 per sq mi of land
Near a park
under 1%
of residents within ½ mile
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Oxford Township have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Oxford Township is ahead of 12% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.

D
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Oxford Township’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 12%
LessMore
NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Oxford Township. 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

138 conserved acres

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

Private owners92 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits46 ac
Private Park · 92 acPrivate Recreation or Education · 46 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
River Greens Golf Course
Private Park
Private owners92Open
Wills Creek Reservoir
Private Recreation or Education
Land trusts & nonprofits46Closed
Trails & water

1 named trail

Named trails
Township Highway 4740.3 mi
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
1Basketball

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

When to get out

August is the best month for walking in Oxford Township

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)9.610.611.813.214.415.014.813.812.411.19.99.3
High (°F)374150647381848377655241
Rain (in)2.92.43.33.94.14.64.13.73.23.02.83.0

February is the driest month (2.4 in) and July the warmest (highs of 84 °F). 4.6 inches fall in June, the wettest month. The climate in Oxford Township →

Next door

Oxford Township and its neighbors

Oxford Township has the second most mapped trails of the 5 towns around it. 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
Oxford Township1%0.4under 1under 1%D
Lafayette Township6%0.41552%B
Adams Township— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Linton Township— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Newcomerstown1%0.61585%B−

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

Questions about parks and trails in Oxford Township

How much of Oxford Township is conserved land?

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 Oxford Township?

8,515 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Oxford Township or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Oxford Township have?

Ahead of 12% 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 Oxford Township 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 →