The park Clearfield
A Flow Bowl, a Combi Bowl, a Death Box and five lit playing surfaces on one site
Fisher Park, and the skate park the city guide gives four words to.
Sixteen acres on the east side of Clearfield, published by the city as Bernard F. Fisher Park: three lit baseball diamonds, two lit soccer fields, a playground, an electronic Neos playground, a basketball court with eight standards, a concession stand and restrooms. And a 14,000 square foot skate park with two separate bowls, a Flow Bowl, a Love Seat, a Combi Bowl, a Death Box, a street section with rails and ledges and night lighting until eleven. An all abilities playground is going in on the old community garden ground now.
I work Southern Utah, four hours and a mountain range away from the north end of Davis County, so these pages are researched rather than lived. What is on them was read where it is issued: the city's own parks, aquatic, public works and development pages at clearfield.city, its August 2026 newsletter, its 2024 water use filing with the state, the Utah Division of Archives and Records Service on the naval depot, the Utah Historical Quarterly account written the year the depot was sold, the codified state highway definition at le.utah.gov, the Freeport Center operator's own tenant directory, the North Davis Sewer District and the presidential remarks of January 1967. Every figure carries the date it was checked. A Davis County partner agent takes the ground level work.
The live question
What is actually at Fisher Park, and is the skate park worth a drive?
Sixteen acres of it, and yes. The city's parks page, checked in August 2026, gives Bernard F. Fisher Park at 16 acres with three lit baseball diamonds, two lit soccer fields, a playground, an electronic Neos playground, a basketball court with eight standards, a concession stand, a walking and jogging path, restrooms and a skate park. The park is open five in the morning to midnight like every other city park here.
The skate park is the part that justifies a trip from outside the city and the city publishes it as its own entry: 14,000 square feet, with two separate bowls, a Flow Bowl, a Love Seat, a Combi Bowl and a Death Box, plus a street section with rails and ledges, and night lighting, open five in the morning to eleven at night. A fourteen thousand square foot lit municipal skate park with individually named features is a genuinely serious piece of public infrastructure, and the practical city guide on this site gives it four words. This page gives it a section.
The name is the other thing, and this page handles it in one line on purpose. The city prints it in full as Bernard F. Fisher Park, and the same name sits on the state highway across town. Everything about the man and about how the two namings came to happen is on the highway page, which is where a story that belongs to one road and one person is told once instead of twice. What follows here is the ground: sixteen acres, five lit playing surfaces, a skate park and a playground going in.
The park, in numbers
16
acres, on the city's own published figure
14,000
square feet of lit skate park
5
lit playing surfaces, three diamonds and two fields
11pm
when the skate park lights go off
The record
A named feature list, a size and a closing time, which is more than most municipal skate parks publish about themselves.
Skate parks are usually described from the outside by people who do not skate, in adjectives. Clearfield publishes this one in nouns, with a square footage and a set of named features, which makes it possible to know what you are driving to. Everything below is the city's own, checked in August 2026.
| What the city publishes | What it means | Worth knowing | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Size | 14,000 square feet | A full sized municipal skate park rather than a corner of a car park with a rail in it | It is the largest single published recreation structure in the city after the aquatic building |
| Bowls | Two separate bowls, named as a Flow Bowl and a Combi Bowl | Two different riding disciplines in one park, transition and pool style | Two bowls means two groups can use it without contesting the same lines |
| Features | A Love Seat and a Death Box among the named elements | Specific transition features rather than generic obstacles | Named features are how a park gets a reputation, and this one has them published |
| Street section | Rails and ledges | Street riding is provided for separately from the bowls | The park is not a bowl park with a rail bolted on, it is both |
| Lighting | Night lighting | Usable after dark in every month of the year | This is the difference between a summer facility and a year round one |
| Hours | 5:00am to 11:00pm | An hour earlier than the citywide midnight park curfew | Published, and the published closing time is the one to plan around |
| Cost | Nothing published, and it is a city park | Free at the point of use like the rest of the park | There is no booking, no session and no supervision published |
| Where it sits | Inside the 16 acre Bernard F. Fisher Park, alongside the diamonds, the fields and the playgrounds | It is part of a full park rather than a standalone site | Restrooms, a concession stand and parking are all on the same ground |
All rows are Clearfield City's parks and recreation pages, checked in August 2026. The city publishes no construction date for the skate park, no designer and no supervision policy, so none appears here. Hours are set by the city and reviewed, and skate park hours in particular are the sort of thing a city changes without announcement, so check before a late session.
The details
Getting there
The park sits east of State Street on the same side of the city as the road out to the installation, and the approach is through ordinary residential streets rather than off an arterial. The pavilion here is listed by the city under a combined Fisher and Aquatic Center heading, which is a reminder that this park and the municipal pool were funded together. Parking is on site and it is the one night in July when that stops being true.
Before you go
- The skate park closes at eleven, an hour before the rest of the park. That is published and it is the earlier of the two times.
- Three of the diamonds and both soccer fields are lit, so organised evening play runs later here than at most city parks in the county.
- The city has begun installing an all abilities playground on the old community garden ground. Expect works fencing on part of the site for a period.
- On the Fourth of July the evening festival and the fireworks are both here. Any other plan for the park that day is not going to work.
The change
A community garden that was not being used is becoming an all abilities playground.
The most recent thing to happen at this park is on the city's own home page, checked in August 2026. The city is replacing what it describes in its own words as an underutilised community garden at Fisher Park with an all abilities inclusive playground, listing wheelchair ramps, accessible swings and accessible play equipment, and it says installation has begun and will run for several weeks. That is a step past announcement: the equipment is going in, and the honest description as of this date is a site under installation rather than a facility you can use.
The reason to record it carefully rather than enthusiastically is that municipal projects at this stage slip routinely and a page that describes a playground as open when it is fenced is worse than useless to a family that drives out to it. What can be said with confidence is what the city has said: the garden was underused, the replacement is designed to be accessible, and the work started in the weeks before this page was written. Anyone planning around it should check the city's own news page rather than this one, which is a snapshot with a date on it.
It is also worth noting what an all abilities playground actually is, because the phrase gets used loosely. The published elements here are ramps rather than steps to reach elevated play, swings designed for a rider who needs support, and equipment placed so that a wheelchair can get to it. That is a design standard rather than a marketing description, and a household that needs it will know immediately whether the specification matches. Ask the city for the equipment schedule if it matters to you.
The other change at this park is older and financial. About $1.5 million of the $11 million revenue bond issue that built the municipal aquatic centre in the early 2000s went into improvements here, which is why the city lists a pavilion under a combined Fisher and Aquatic Center heading and why the two facilities have always felt like one programme. A city that borrows once and spends it on a pool and a park is making a single decision about what it wants to be, and both halves of that decision are still standing.
The inclusive playground at this park is under installation and is not yet open. Clearfield City's own home page, checked in August 2026, states that the underutilised community garden at Fisher Park is being replaced with an all abilities inclusive playground with wheelchair ramps, accessible swings and accessible play equipment, and that installation has begun and will last several weeks. That is a work in progress on a fenced site, not a facility. No completion date has been published, no equipment schedule has been published and the city's own page for this park is a photograph stub with no text on it at all. Check the city's news page for the current position before making a trip that depends on it, and treat the several weeks as an estimate by the city rather than a commitment.
The one big night
Everything the Fourth of July builds toward happens on these sixteen acres.
The city's Fourth of July programme runs for two weeks and it ends here. On the city's own event site, checked in August 2026, the 2026 Freedom Festival was at Bernard F. Fisher Park at half past six on the evening of 4 July, free to attend, with fireworks at about ten. Everything before it in the programme happens somewhere else: the scavenger hunt across the city, the film and the run at Steed Park, the bridge painting at Center Street, the concert at the high school, the pool party at the aquatic centre and the parade from City Hall up SR-193. The park is the finish line.
That is worth knowing in both directions if you live near it. One evening a year this park holds the city's largest gathering and a fireworks display, with the traffic, parking and noise that go with it, and the rest of the year it is a park with lit diamonds on it. Nobody who lives beside a firework site is surprised by it after the first year, but a buyer who has only ever seen the street in February should know it is coming.
The event site also carries a superlative about the fireworks in the organiser's own voice, saying it is excited to have Utah's second largest fireworks show back this year. That is the organiser making a claim about its own event on its own website. No ranking body publishes such a list, this companion does not repeat the claim as a finding, and the practical city guide on this site attributes it to an event aggregator, which is not where it comes from. The hub carries that finding in full.
All of the 2026 dates are in the past as you read this and none for 2027 is published anywhere. Municipal event calendars in this county are published late and undated pages are common, so take next year's date from the city's own calendar in the spring rather than from any listing, including this one.
The rest of the city's park inventory, for scale
Clearfield publishes seventeen named parks with a uniform curfew of five in the morning to midnight, plus the skate park and the dog park as facilities inside two of them, and it publishes an acreage for most of them. The largest is Jesse D. Barlow Park at 17 acres, with an 84 person pavilion, a half mile walking loop, a full sized basketball court and the enclosed Clearfield Dog Park at its north end, complete with agility toys and a water fountain. Fisher Park at 16 acres is next, then North and South Steed at 11.5 acres each, Jesse D. Barlow aside.
Below those the inventory is unusually varied for a city of this size: Island View at 5.5 acres with a nine hole disc golf course, Fox Hollow at 5 acres with a sledding hill and labelled native trees, Kiwanis at 4 acres with a sledding hill, a gaga pit, horseshoe pits and the city's one published tennis court, Cornerstone at 3.5 acres with a rock themed playground, Train Watch at 1.5 acres with a train themed playground, and Hamblin Park at one acre with a 150 foot gravity rail swing, carrying the name of the family that built the first dugout here in 1877. The practical city guide names three parks out of seventeen.
Living with it
Five lit playing surfaces, a skate park until eleven, and one night in July.
The practical picture for a household near this park is a busy, well lit, well used sixteen acres. Three lit baseball diamonds and two lit soccer fields means organised play into the evening through the season, which is a genuine amenity if you have someone playing and a genuine consideration if you do not. The skate park is lit until eleven. The concession stand implies the diamonds get used properly rather than occasionally. This is not a quiet green square.
The counterweight is that it is exceptionally well equipped for a park inside a residential grid. Two playgrounds including an electronic one, a basketball court with eight standards, restrooms, a bookable pavilion, a walking path and a fourteen thousand square foot skate park is a set of facilities that in a lot of Utah cities would be spread across three sites. The all abilities playground going in now adds to it in a direction municipal parks have historically been weak on.
What this page does not carry is the man the park is named for, which is a deliberate split. Bernard Fisher, the 1966 A Shau action, the Medal of Honor presented at the White House in January 1967 and the Saturday in November 1997 when the city put his name on the state highway across town are all on the highway page. Accounts in circulation date this park's dedication to August 1967, shortly after the medal, but the city's own page for the park is a photograph stub with no text on it, so that date is not asserted here as verified.
The last piece of advice is the same as for any park with lights and a fireworks night: go twice. Once on a summer evening when the diamonds are lit and the skate park is busy, and once on an ordinary weekday morning. The difference between those two visits is the actual amenity, and it is also the actual cost. The mover page carries the rest of what an address here asks for.
The same name
The Bernard Fisher Highway
The airman, the medal, the 1997 ceremony and the gravel paper route the road is named for.
Read the guideThe other big one
Steed Park
Two parks of eleven and a half acres, sixteen lit courts and a rail trail at both ends.
Read the guideThe same borrowing
The Aquatic Center
Nine million to a pool, one and a half million to this park, out of one bond issue.
Read the guideWhat a day costs
Family weekends in Davis County
The county's paid and free days out, priced and seasoned in one place with the dates read.
Read the guideThe practical side
The Clearfield city guide
The figures half of a Clearfield address, which none of these seven pages goes near.
Open the guideThe wider county
Davis County on The Local
Every Davis town on The Local, with the seven subjects none of them writes on its own.
The region hubKeep reading
More of Clearfield on The Local.
The depot
The Freeport Center
841 acres of farms in 1942, 38 miles of track by 1943, and letters instead of streets.
Read the guideThe road
The Bernard Fisher Highway
A boy's gravel paper route became a state highway named for him after 1967.
Read the guideThe downtown
Clearfield Station
The city that never had a downtown is buying one, 28 million dollars of pipe first.
Read the guideThe pool
The Aquatic Center
The voters said no to the tax, and the council found another instrument entirely.
Read the guideThe courts
Steed Park
Two parks of 11.5 acres each, sixteen lit courts, and a curfew at midnight.
Read the guideMoving here
Clearfield or Layton
One bill, one sewer district, no irrigation water, and a grid that runs into Sunset.
Read the guideThe companion
Clearfield, in full
Two federal installations, no historic main street, and a downtown going in beside the platform.
Read the pageQuick answers
Fisher Park, answered.
14,000 square feet, published by the city as part of Bernard F. Fisher Park. The city names its features rather than describing them: two separate bowls, a Flow Bowl, a Love Seat, a Combi Bowl and a Death Box, plus a street section with rails and ledges. It carries night lighting and is open from 5:00am to 11:00pm, which is an hour earlier than the citywide midnight park curfew. There is no fee, no booking and no published supervision policy. Hours are the city's and are reviewed, so check before a late session.
On the city's own published list for Bernard F. Fisher Park, at 16 acres: three lit baseball diamonds, two lit soccer fields, a playground, an electronic Neos playground, a basketball court with eight standards, a concession stand, a walking and jogging path, restrooms and the skate park. Park hours are 5:00am to midnight. The pavilion here is bookable, listed by the city under a combined Fisher and Aquatic Center heading, with reservations accepted from 1 March for a 1 May to 30 September season and no fee published.
Bernard F. Fisher, and the city prints that full name on its parks page rather than the short version most people use. He is the same person the state highway across the middle of Clearfield is named for, and this companion tells that story in exactly one place, on the highway page, so that a life does not get summarised twice at two different lengths. What this page covers instead is the sixteen acres themselves: the lit diamonds and fields, the skate park, the concession stand, the pavilion and the all abilities playground currently being installed on the old community garden ground.
Yes, and it is under installation rather than open. Clearfield City's home page, checked in August 2026, states that the underutilised community garden at Fisher Park is being replaced with an all abilities inclusive playground with wheelchair ramps, accessible swings and accessible play equipment, and that installation has begun and will last several weeks. No completion date and no equipment schedule have been published. Expect works fencing on that part of the site, and check the city's own news page before making a trip that depends on it.
At Fisher Park. On the city's own Fourth of July event site, the 2026 Freedom Festival was at Bernard F. Fisher Park at 6:30pm on 4 July, free to attend, with fireworks at about 10:00pm. Everything earlier in the two week programme happens elsewhere in the city: the scavenger hunt, the film and the run at Steed Park, the bridge painting at Center Street, the concert at the high school, the pool party at the aquatic centre and the parade from City Hall up SR-193. No 2027 dates are published anywhere yet.
The organiser says so and nobody else does. The city's own Fourth of July event site says, in its own voice, that it is excited to have Utah's second largest fireworks show back this year. That is a claim by an event about itself on its own website, no ranking body publishes such a list, and this companion does not repeat it as a finding. The practical city guide on this site attributes the same claim to an event aggregator, which is not where it comes from, and that has been reported as a finding rather than corrected here.
Partly out of the same borrowing that built the municipal aquatic centre. The Deseret News reported at the pool's opening in June 2005 that after residents voted against extra taxes, the City Council funded the project with $11 million in revenue bonds, of which about $9 million went to the pool and gymnasium and about $1.5 million to improvements at Fisher Park. That is why the city lists a bookable pavilion here under a combined Fisher and Aquatic Center heading, and why the two facilities read as one civic programme rather than two.
Accounts in circulation date the dedication to August 1967, shortly after the Medal of Honor was presented in January of that year, and the city publishes nothing that confirms it. The city's own dedicated page for the park is a photograph stub with no text on it at all, and its parks page carries the amenities without a history. So the date is recorded here as what is in circulation rather than as an established fact, and anyone who needs it settled should ask the city directly.
Seventeen named parks, all published at 5:00am to midnight, plus a skate park and a dog park as facilities inside two of them. The largest the city publishes an acreage for is Jesse D. Barlow Park at 17 acres, which also holds the enclosed Clearfield Dog Park at its north end with agility toys and a water fountain. Bernard F. Fisher Park is next at 16 acres, then North Steed Park and Pond and South Steed Park at 11.5 acres each. Below those, Island View has a nine hole disc golf course, Kiwanis and Fox Hollow both have sledding hills, and Hamblin Park has a 150 foot gravity rail swing.
Sixteen acres, five lit surfaces and a bowl called the Death Box.
This is the park most people in Clearfield actually use and it is described almost nowhere at the level the city itself publishes it. Fourteen thousand square feet of lit skate park with named features, three lit diamonds, two lit soccer fields, an electronic playground, an all abilities playground going in on the old garden ground, and the city's whole Fourth of July evening. If a street near it is on your list, see it once on a lit summer evening and once on a February morning before you decide anything. Tell me what you are weighing and I will introduce you to a Davis County partner agent who works this side of the city, and stay on the file for the financing side.
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