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Outdoors in Sheffield Township

Sheffield Township has 5.1 miles of mapped trails, 0.2 for every square mile of land

OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Sheffield 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 10% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
1%
146 acres · of 23.3 sq mi of land
Trails
5.1 mi
0.2 per sq mi of land
Near a park
under 1%
of residents within ½ mile
Lakes & rivers
2
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Sheffield Township have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Sheffield Township is ahead of 10% of U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; trail miles come closest.

D
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Sheffield Township’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 10%
LessMore
NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Sheffield 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

146 conserved acres

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

Land trusts & nonprofits117 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)29 ac
Conservation Easement · 146 ac
Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 146 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. The walks above are places people visit.

Things to do

1 places to go in Sheffield Township

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

Campgrounds in Sheffield Township

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

Trails & water

2 lakes & rivers

Lakes & rivers tap for directions
When to get out

The best walking months in Sheffield Township: May and July 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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)9.510.511.813.314.515.214.913.812.411.09.89.1
High (°F)333645586978817973624939
Rain (in)3.02.33.03.73.64.24.13.74.14.23.63.3

February is the driest month (2.3 in) and July the warmest (highs of 81 °F). 4.2 inches fall in June, the wettest month. The climate in Sheffield Township →

Next door

Sheffield Township and its neighbors

Sheffield Township has the most mapped trails of the 3 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
Sheffield Township1%0.2under 1under 1%D
Denmark Township— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Kingsville Township2%under 0.1127%C−

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

Questions about parks and trails in Sheffield Township

How much of Sheffield 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 Sheffield Township?

9,838 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Sheffield Township or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Sheffield Township have?

Ahead of 10% 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 Sheffield 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 →