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Outdoors in Dupont

Dupont has 3 acres of parks, 1.2 for every 1,000 residents

95% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 0.3 miles of mapped trail cross Dupont, 0.2 per square mile of land.

Ahead of 31% of U.S. towns · #933 of 1,037 in Pennsylvania. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
3 acres · of 1.6 sq mi of land
Trails
0.3 mi
0.2 per sq mi of land
Park land
3 ac
1.2 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
95%
of residents within ½ mile
Lakes & rivers
1

What kind of outdoors town is Dupont?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Dupont have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Dupont is ahead of 31% of U.S. towns, #933 of 1,037 in Pennsylvania. 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 Dupont’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 31%
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Pennsylvania towns of 2,500+ (1,037)Ahead of 10%

Pennsylvania towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 8%; the U.S., 4%), so Dupont’s under 1% is ahead of 3% of Pennsylvania towns, while its trails per square mile lead 30% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Dupont. 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 C− 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.

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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Pick a walk

Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.

Municipal Park

Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects it

3 conserved acres

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

Other or Unknown Local Government2 ac
Local Park · 2 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Elm Street Little League Park
Local Park
Other or Unknown Local Government2Open
Trails & water

1 lakes & rivers

Lakes & rivers tap for directions
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.

When to get out

The best walking months in Dupont: May to July

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)343745597078828073614938
Rain (in)2.92.33.13.53.64.13.84.24.14.23.03.1

February is the driest month (2.3 in) and July the warmest (highs of 82 °F). 4.2 inches fall in August, the wettest month. The climate in Dupont →

Next door

Dupont and its neighbors

Dupont has the second 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
Dupontunder 1%0.2195%C
Pittston Township20%1.48168%A
Avoca1%under 0.1499%+C

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

Questions about parks and trails in Dupont

How much of Dupont 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.

Are dogs allowed on Dupont’s trails?

Municipal Park doesn’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.

Is there public land near Dupont?

46,985 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Dupont or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 3 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Dupont have?

Ahead of 31% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #933 of 1,037 in Pennsylvania. 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 Dupont 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 →