Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 3.0Mendon has 13 acres of parks, 8.5 for every 1,000 residents
85% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 0.3 miles of mapped trail cross Mendon, 0.2 per square mile of land.
Ahead of 32% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Mendon?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Mendon have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Mendon is ahead of 32% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; conserved land pulls it down.
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
Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it.
Pick a walk
Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest
Pioneer Park
5 places to go in Mendon
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
5 playgrounds without a name on the map. Tap “Show all on map” to see them.
0.0 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
9 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service). The map also marks 1 historic points from OpenStreetMap: plaques, memorials and old buildings.
The best walking months in Mendon: 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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 9.5 | 10.5 | 11.8 | 13.3 | 14.5 | 15.2 | 14.9 | 13.8 | 12.4 | 11.0 | 9.8 | 9.2 |
| High (°F) | 33 | 39 | 50 | 59 | 69 | 80 | 90 | 88 | 77 | 63 | 47 | 35 |
| Rain (in) | 2.0 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 1.8 |
July is the driest month (0.5 in) and the warmest (highs of 90 °F). 2.3 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 90 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Mendon →
Mendon and its neighbors
Mendon has the second most mapped trails of the 2 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.
| Town | Conserved of land | Trail mi per sq mi | Park acres per 1,000 | Near a park ½ mile | Outdoors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mendon | under 1% | 0.2 | 9 | 85% | C |
| Peter | — 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 Mendon
How much of Mendon 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.
Are dogs allowed on Mendon’s trails?
Mendon Square and Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest don’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.
Is there public land near Mendon?
4,017 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Mendon or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 13 of them inside the city line.
How much outdoors does Mendon have?
Ahead of 32% 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 Mendon 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 →