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 4.098% of residents live within a half mile of a park in Boswell
0.6 miles of mapped trail cross Boswell, 0.8 per square mile of land. 1 acre is park or preserve, 0.5 per 1,000 residents.
Ahead of 43% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Boswell?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Boswell have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Boswell is ahead of 43% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; park acres per resident pull it down.
Pennsylvania towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 8%; the U.S., 4%), so Boswell’s under 1% is ahead of 0% of Pennsylvania towns, while its trails per square mile lead 71% of them.
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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1 conserved acres
under 1% of Boswell’s land. Who manages Boswell’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
| Parcel (PAD-US) | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boswell Borough Tot Lot Local Recreation Area | Other or Unknown Local Government | 1 | Open |
1 place on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The best walking months in Boswell: April, May and August
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) | 9.6 | 10.6 | 11.8 | 13.2 | 14.4 | 15.0 | 14.8 | 13.7 | 12.4 | 11.1 | 9.9 | 9.3 |
| High (°F) | 35 | 38 | 47 | 60 | 69 | 77 | 81 | 79 | 72 | 61 | 49 | 39 |
| Rain (in) | 3.9 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 4.1 |
February is the driest month (3.4 in) and July the warmest (highs of 81 °F). 5.0 inches fall in June, the wettest month. The climate in Boswell →
Questions about parks and trails in Boswell
How much of Boswell is conserved land?
under 1% of its land, against a typical 8% for a Pennsylvania town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.
Is there public land near Boswell?
26,553 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Boswell or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Boswell have?
Ahead of 43% 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 Boswell 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 →