Outdoors · Bear Lake

Bear Lake, WI parks, trails & bike paths

About 18% of Bear Lake is conserved land, roughly 4,123 acres. There are about 4.9 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Barron County Forest (3.3 mi).

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

At a glance

Bear Lake outdoors

Conserved land
18%
4,123 of 22,364 acres
Trails
4.9 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
1
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

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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

Barron County Forest

Managed by Barron County
4,044 acres3.3 mi of trail
Ice Age Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

4,123 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
County
4,123 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

Bear Lake and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Bear Lake18.4%4.9 mi1
Lakeland2.2%4.9 mi1
Sarona11.4%9.4 mi2
Oak Grove0.7%11.8 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Bear Lake'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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