Fairbury Public Parks

Fairbury Frontier Funpark:
Fairbury's Frontier Funpark, completed in April of 1995, is an addition to Fairbury's park system that offers everything from swimming, tennis, long walks, and sledding to camping and fishing.
The Funpark, built through donations and volunteer labor, offers a unique play area for youngsters in the Fairbury City Park.
Children can slide down a mammoth's trunk, sell imaginary train tickets from a booth or test skill on a balance beam at the funpark.
It's conveniently located in the southwest portion of the City Park, near the Community Building, swimming pool and softball fields, as well as a picnic shelter and public restrooms.

Fairbury City Park:
Built around a race track that was built for horse racing in the early part of the century, is a shady, cool place to have a leisurely walk. It is home to Union Pacific Engine No. 421 and a Union Pacific caboose, as well as an Army Naional Guard tank. The Girl Scout Cabin at the north entrance is a legacy of the WPA efforts of the 1930s and is used for a variety of community events, including garage sales by local residents. The Community Building on the west side of the park, is an air-conditioned facility that works well for family reunions and dinners, features a kitchen and gymnasium.
The park is also home to several picninc shelters, the city's swimming pool, horseshoe pitching area, sand volleyball courts, a softball complex and Quinn Field, which is used for baseball in the summer and football games in the fall.

McNish Park in Fairbury:
Located just one block west and one block south of the junction of highways 15 and 136in Fairbury, is home to some of the sledding in town. Local children use the park daily when there is enough snow for sledding. McNish, improved in the 1930s like Fairbury City Park, also offers picnic shelters, playground equipment, a fitness path, tennis courts and Boy Scout Cabin, which is available for rent just as the Girl Scout Cabin in the City Park.

Crystal Springs:
If camping is your thing, Crystal Springs, located just southwest of Fairbury is the ideal place. Owned and operated by the city, Crystal Springs offers three lakes for fishing, camping pads with electrical hookups, picnic shelters and playground equiptment, as well as resident waterfowl and during the summer months, a menagerie of animals.
Crystal Springs is the source of Fairbury's drinking water and is just a hop, skip and jump from the Little Blue River adn some of the best fishing around.

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