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IMGP9332.JPG CA99 NB at Fairmead Madera County California (27231458425)Photo: David Prasad from Welches, OR., United States · CC BY-SA 2.0
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Outdoors in Fairmead

Fairmead has 10 miles of mapped trails, 1.4 for every square mile of land

OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Fairmead yet. Know a trail or a town park? Anyone can add it to OpenStreetMap, and it shows up here on the next refresh.

Ahead of 14% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
under 1%
0 acres · of 7.7 sq mi of land
Trails
10 mi
1.4 per sq mi of land
Near a park
under 1%
of residents within ½ mile

What kind of outdoors town is Fairmead?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Fairmead have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Fairmead is ahead of 14% of U.S. towns. Trail miles hold the grade up; the share of residents near a park pulls it down.

D
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Fairmead’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 14%
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NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Fairmead. 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 D− 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
Trails & water

1 named trail

Named trails
Avenue 22 3/40.5 mi
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
2Basketball

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

When to get out

The best walking months in Fairmead: April and May

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)9.910.811.913.114.114.714.513.612.411.210.19.6
High (°F)566268748391969590796656
Rain (in)2.31.91.90.90.50.10.00.00.10.61.01.9

July is the driest month (under 0.1 in) and the warmest (highs of 96 °F). 2.3 inches fall in January, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 96 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Fairmead →

Next door

Fairmead and its neighbors

Fairmead has the most mapped trails of the 2 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
Fairmeadunder 1%1.4under 1under 1%D
Chowchillaunder 1%0.7457%C+

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

Questions about parks and trails in Fairmead

How much of Fairmead is conserved land?

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

Is there public land near Fairmead?

638 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Fairmead or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Fairmead have?

Ahead of 14% 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 Fairmead neighbors.

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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 →