#1Lower Alsace Township
Berks County · 4,886 peopleOutdoors grade, among the top in the U.S.·Overall B− · #677 of 1,032 in PA
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Lower Alsace Township, #1 on this list · Photo: Shuvaev · CC BY-SA 4.0Lower Alsace Township ranks first on outdoors among Pennsylvania’s 1,037 towns of 2,500+; 386 of the 1,037 grade A− or better on outdoors nationally.
The Outdoors grade, a character grade (not part of the overall): the share of land conserved and the trail miles per square mile. How grades work
#1Outdoors grade, among the top in the U.S.·Overall B− · #677 of 1,032 in PA
#2Outdoors grade, among the top in the U.S.·Overall B · #583 of 1,032 in PA
Outdoors grade, among the top in the U.S.·Overall B · #632 of 1,032 in PA
Outdoors grade, best first (the letter is national). Towns with the same score share a rank; the overall grade and state rank are beside each.
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Lower Alsace Township (Berks County) ranks first on outdoors among 1,037 towns, with an A+; Philipsburg and White Oak follow.
The Outdoors grade, a character grade (not part of the overall): the share of land conserved and the trail miles per square mile. Towns are sorted on the grade’s score; the letter and rank are the same as on each town’s page. How grades work.
The list covers towns of 2,500+ residents with a outdoors grade (1,037 in Pennsylvania). Smaller towns have the grade on their page but no rank. Every town is on the Pennsylvania page.
Every list ranks the same 2,500+ towns, so a town’s rank means the same thing on each.