Photo: Dclemens1971 · CC BY 4.0Few parks or trails are on the map in Fairmount
3% of residents live within a half mile of a park.
Ahead of 4% of U.S. towns. What drives it
How much outdoors does Fairmount have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Fairmount is ahead of 4% of U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; conserved land comes closest.
Few Tennessee towns conserve much land (a typical one, 1%; the U.S., 4%), so Fairmount’s under 1% is ahead of 17% of Tennessee towns, while its trails per square mile lead 5% of them.
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
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9 conserved acres
under 1% of Fairmount’s land. Who manages Fairmount’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 9 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. Public access isn’t recorded for 1 of 3 parcels. The walks above are places people visit.
1 place on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The best walking months in Fairmount: April to August
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) | 10.0 | 10.9 | 11.9 | 13.0 | 14.0 | 14.5 | 14.3 | 13.5 | 12.3 | 11.2 | 10.3 | 9.8 |
| High (°F) | 46 | 50 | 58 | 68 | 75 | 81 | 84 | 84 | 79 | 69 | 57 | 49 |
| Rain (in) | 5.8 | 5.9 | 6.0 | 5.8 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 5.0 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 5.2 | 6.6 |
August is the driest month (4.2 in) and July the warmest (highs of 84 °F). 6.6 inches fall in December, the wettest month. The climate in Fairmount →
Fairmount and its neighbors
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| Town | Conserved of land | Trail mi per sq mi | Park acres per 1,000 | Near a park ½ mile | Outdoors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairmount | under 1% | under 0.1 | under 1 | 3% | D− |
| Signal Mountain | 9% | 1.1 | 21 | 86% | A |
| Walden | 1% | 1.7 | 12 | 92% | B+ |
| Lone Oak | 6% | 0.3 | 36 | 23% | B− |
The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.
Questions about parks and trails in Fairmount
How much of Fairmount is conserved land?
under 1% of its land, against a typical 1% for a Tennessee town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.
Is there public land near Fairmount?
6,526 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Fairmount or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Fairmount have?
Ahead of 4% 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 Fairmount 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 →