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City Hall & Fire Hall, Fulda, MinnesotaPhoto: Heritage Preservation Department - MNHS · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Outdoors in Fulda

Few parks or trails are on the map in Fulda

2 acres are parks and preserves, 1.4 per 1,000 residents. 80% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 2% of Fulda’s land is conserved, about 10 acres.

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

Conserved land
2%
10 acres · of 1.0 sq mi of land
Trails
0.1 mi
0.1 per sq mi of land
Park land
2 ac
1.4 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
80%
of residents within ½ mile
Lakes & rivers
1

What kind of outdoors town is Fulda?

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

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Fulda have?

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

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Fulda’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 28%
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Water is 7% of Fulda’s area (0 of 1 square miles), so every share here is of land; over land and water together, the conserved share would read 1%.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Fulda. 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 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

10 conserved acres

2% of Fulda’s land. Water is left out: Fulda has 1.0 square miles of land and 0.1 of water, so the share counts land only. Who manages Fulda’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Other state land10 ac
Conservation Easement · 10 ac
Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 10 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. The walks above are places people visit.

Things to do

3 places to go in Fulda

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

Campgrounds in Fulda
Seven Mile Lake County ParkFee
Directions
Trails & water

1 lakes & rivers

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
3Pickleball
2Football
1Baseball

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

History along the way

1 place on the National Register

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

History →
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific DepotBuilding · listed 1979
About it
When to get out

The walking year in Fulda

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)9.210.411.813.414.715.415.114.012.410.99.68.9
High (°F)232840566979828073594228
Rain (in)0.70.81.63.04.24.93.63.63.32.41.40.9

January is the driest month (0.7 in) and July the warmest (highs of 82 °F). 4.9 inches fall in June, the wettest month. The climate in Fulda →

Questions about parks and trails in Fulda

How much of Fulda is conserved land?

2% of its land, against a typical 5% for a Minnesota town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Fulda?

11 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Fulda or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 2 of them inside the city line.

How much outdoors does Fulda 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 Fulda 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 →