Outdoors · Wheeling

Wheeling, MN parks, trails & bike paths

About 7.7% of Wheeling is conserved land, roughly 1,701 acres. There are about 14 miles of mapped trails.

Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Wheeling, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

At a glance

Wheeling outdoors

Conserved land
7.7%
1,701 of 21,977 acres
Trails
14 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 13 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
named on the map
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 mi off-road paths

Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

Map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

12
Tap a number or a place below to zoom in© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Prairie Creek Wildlife Management Area

Managed by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
79 acres0.3 mi of trail
Chicago Great Western Railway
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Prairie Creek Woods SNA

Nature preserve
80 acres0.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

1,701 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State parks
1,621 ac
State natural resources
80 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Nearby

Wheeling and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Wheeling7.7%13.9 mi2
Northfield0.4%1.1 mi1
Richland0%1.3 mi0
Cannon City2.1%2.7 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Wheeling's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.

Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US). Measured against the Census town boundary.

How we measure"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 20-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what's typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren't recorded.

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