Fisher Park — Attraction in Philadelphia

Horrible!!! The whole park smells like weed and it’s filled with people that are on “stuff”. Me and my family took a small grill so we can cook out and there was a green van with 3 guys in it parked next to my car. When we were packing up to leave you could see they were smoking weed and the other guy that was closest to my driver side was masterbating in the car with the door open! Mind you this is a park that has children!!! I told my boyfriend to hurry up and as he loaded the food in the truck the crack head hopped out the van and zombied walked over to my car and asked for a hot dog. My boyfriend gave him one of the burnt ones that fell in the charcoal and the guy took it, bit it, and passed it on to the others. We got our stuff and got out of there so quick. We haven’t...

Park was well maintained in the early days up until the early 2000's, I grew up in the 70's and it was such a beautiful park then. We had concerts in the park, Films, School Outings, picnics and a beautiful Playground, some hiking into the woods. I visited it a few years ago and couldn't believe how unmaintained it is now. It's sad a new generation of folks move in and do not take care...

In 1952, 1953, 1954 my home was Fisher Park. (I lived at 5936 N. 7th St. as a three, four, five years old.) But every day---with even TV too young---I was in the park and the heaven My mother spoke of was simply...Fisher Park. I play with sticks and leaves and ran up and down paths and wouldn't go up to the railroad tracks (promised mom) and waited for mom's call. Seventy...