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Fisher Illinois Post office and downtownPhoto: Dual Freq · CC BY 2.5
COutdoors
Outdoors in Fisher

Fisher has 16 acres of parks, 9.9 for every 1,000 residents

93% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

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

Conserved land
under 1%
3 acres · of 1.3 sq mi of land
Trails
0.0 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
16 ac
9.9 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
93%
of residents within ½ mile
Bike routes
0.2 mi
0.2 mi paths

What kind of outdoors town is Fisher?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Fisher have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Fisher is ahead of 28% of U.S. towns. The share of residents near a park holds the grade up; trail miles pull it down.

C
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Fisher’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.

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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Pick a walk

Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.

Mary Lammle Park

Park
10 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet

Fisher Village Park

Managed by Village of Fisher
4 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects it

3 conserved acres

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

Town or city3 ac
Local Park · 3 ac
The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Richman Park
Local Park
Town or city3Open
Things to do

2 places to go in Fisher

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

Playgrounds in Fisher

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

Biking & sports

0.2 miles of bike routes

Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

0.2 mi
off-road bike paths
Courts & fields
5Tracks
3Softball
2Basketball
1Baseball
1Football
1Tennis
1Skate park

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

When to get out

August is the best month for walking in Fisher

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)9.610.611.813.214.415.014.813.812.411.09.99.3
High (°F)333850637483858479665038
Rain (in)2.31.92.74.14.54.54.33.63.03.33.12.3

February is the driest month (1.9 in) and July the warmest (highs of 85 °F). 4.5 inches fall in May, the wettest month. The climate in Fisher →

Next door

Fisher and its neighbors

Fisher has the second 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
Fisherunder 1%under 0.11093%C
Brown Townshipunder 1%under 0.11178%C

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

Questions about parks and trails in Fisher

How much of Fisher is conserved land?

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

Are dogs allowed on Fisher’s trails?

Mary Lammle Park and Fisher Village Park don’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.

Where can I bike in Fisher?

0.2 miles of bike routes are on the map: 0.2 of off-road paths.

Is there public land near Fisher?

1,400 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Fisher or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 16 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Fisher 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 Fisher 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 →