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Outdoors in Lewiston

Lewiston has 9.9 miles of mapped trails, 0.4 for every square mile of land

18% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 28 acres are parks and preserves, 11 per 1,000 residents.

Ahead of 28% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
70 acres · of 26.0 sq mi of land
Trails
9.9 mi
0.4 per sq mi of land
Park land
28 ac
11 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
18%
of residents within ½ mile
Lakes & rivers
2

What kind of outdoors town is Lewiston?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Lewiston have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Lewiston is ahead of 28% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.

C
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Lewiston’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 28%
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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.

Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Who protects it

70 conserved acres

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

Land trusts & nonprofits56 ac
Other state land14 ac
Conservation Easement · 56 acAgricultural Easement · 14 ac
Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 70 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. The walks above are places people visit.

Things to do

3 places to go in Lewiston

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

Playgrounds in Lewiston

3 playgrounds without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.

Trails & water

2 named trails and 2 lakes & rivers

Named trails
3200 West0.1 mi
800 North0.1 mi
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
2Pickleball
1Basketball
1Tennis

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

History along the way

3 places on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).

History →
Lewiston Tithing Office and GranaryBuilding · listed 1985
About it
Lewiston Community BuildingBuilding · listed 1985
About it
Martin and Martha Pond FarmsteadBuilding · listed 1997
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Lewiston: May, June and 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)9.410.511.813.314.515.214.913.912.411.09.79.1
High (°F)323750596979908877634733
Rain (in)1.61.51.61.92.21.20.60.81.31.61.21.5

July is the driest month (0.6 in) and the warmest (highs of 90 °F). 2.2 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 90 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Lewiston →

Next door

Lewiston and its neighbors

Lewiston 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
Lewistonunder 1%0.41118%C
Cove— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Cornish— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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

Questions about parks and trails in Lewiston

How much of Lewiston is conserved land?

under 1% of its land, against a typical 3% for an Utah town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Lewiston?

4,643 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Lewiston or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 86 of them inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Lewiston have?

Ahead of 28% 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 Lewiston 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 →