Outdoors · Barksdale

Barksdale, WI parks, trails & bike paths

About 49% of Barksdale is conserved land, roughly 20,855 acres. There are about 26 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Barksdale outdoors

Conserved land
49%
20,855 of 42,223 acres
Trails
26 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 22 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

Whittlesey Creek National Wildlife Refuge

Managed by United States Fish and Wildlife Service
313 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

South Shore Lake Superior Fish and Wildlife Area

Managed by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
106 acres0.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

20,855 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Forest Service
20,424 ac
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
681 ac
State natural resources
117 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 56 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
Nearby

Barksdale and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Barksdale49.4%26.4 mi2
Eileen6%8.6 mi3
Washburn70%50.4 mi1
Pilsen67.9%20.0 mi4
Tripp47.9%13.3 mi2
Bayview42.1%57.7 mi5
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Barksdale'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 33.9-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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