Outdoors · Barnes

Barnes, WI parks, trails & bike paths

About 53% of Barnes is conserved land, roughly 41,717 acres. There are about 129 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Bayfield County Forest (72.7 mi).

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

At a glance

Barnes outdoors

Conserved land
53%
41,717 of 79,231 acres
Trails
129 mi
1 mi per sq mi · 77 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
named on the map
Bike routes
5.7 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 5.7 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

Bayfield County Forest

Managed by Bayfield County
41,146 acres72.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Mid Eau Claire Lake Public Access

Park
51 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Douglas County Forest

Nature preserve
25 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Barnes Town Park

Park
6 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
Who protects the land

41,717 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
County
38,658 ac
State natural resources
2,844 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
224 ac
U.S. Forest Service
18 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2,941 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 paths5.7 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis3
  • Pickleball3
  • Baseball2
  • Basketball1

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

Nearby

Barnes and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Barnes52.7%128.7 mi4
Highland71.6%61.1 mi3
Drummond80.9%94.7 mi5
Delta57.2%43.6 mi5
Cable20.9%72.4 mi6
Hughes69.2%65.4 mi4
Lenroot51.3%82.8 mi5
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Barnes'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 36.1-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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