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Outdoors in Buffalo

Buffalo ranks T#59 of 134 US cities for outdoors, with a Outdoors score of 56 — Fun. That puts it in the 57th percentile nationally and #1 of 2 in New York.

Outdoors score
56
Fun
National rank
T#59 of 134
In New York
#1 of 2
Percentile
57th

The typical city scores 50 for outdoors; Buffalo sits 6 points above the median.

How outdoors is measured

Parks, beaches and easy access to nature.

Data sources: OpenStreetMap parks, nature reserves, playgrounds and beaches, plus National Park Service units and Recreation.gov federal facilities.

Full methodology → Glossary The raw measurement is part of the Data plan →

Ranked around Buffalo

  1. #57 Boston, MA 58
  2. #58 Cleveland, OH 57
  3. T#59 Buffalo, NY — this page 56
  4. #61 Pittsburgh, PA 55
  5. #62 Tulsa, OK 54

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Top US cities for outdoors

  1. #1 Aspen, CO 93
  2. T#2 Gatlinburg, TN 92
  3. T#2 Stowe, VT 92
  4. T#2 Telluride, CO 92
  5. T#5 Jackson, WY 91

More about Buffalo

Buffalo scores 77 overall (Very Fun) on the CityFunIndex. Its strongest factors: