Outdoors · Alden

Alden, WI parks, trails & bike paths

About 3.5% of Alden is conserved land, roughly 1,333 acres. There are about 1.1 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Alden outdoors

Conserved land
3.5%
1,333 of 37,554 acres
Trails
1.1 mi
0 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
6
446 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
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

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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

Pike Hole (WDNR)

Managed by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
21 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Flaters Waterfowl Production Area

Managed by United States Fish and Wildlife Service
128 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Houghdahl South Waterfowl Production Area

Managed by United States Fish and Wildlife Service
60 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Suckut Waterfowl Production Area

Managed by United States Fish and Wildlife Service
52 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 6 parks & preserves
  • Alden Waterfowl Production Area37 ac
  • Bierbrauer Waterfowl Production Area10 ac
Who protects the land

1,333 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
1,292 ac
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
860 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
132 ac
County
99 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 132 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

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

Courts & fields

  • Equestrian1

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Next door

Alden and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Alden3.5%1.1 mi6
Garfield1.1%7.0 mi3
Black Brook3.4%5.2 mi7
Farmington8.7%6.7 mi8
Star Prairie3.7%0.0 mi6
Stanton14.1%0.0 mi5
Star Prairie2.8%0.0 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Alden'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 24.9-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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