Outdoors · Bristol

Bristol, WI parks, trails & bike paths

About 2.4% of Bristol is conserved land, roughly 514 acres. There are about 1.8 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Bristol outdoors

Conserved land
2.4%
514 of 21,331 acres
Trails
1.8 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
5
118 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.9 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.6 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

Patrick Marsh Wildlife Area

Nature preserve
82 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Deansville Wildlife Area

Managed by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
213 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
3

Highland Park

Park
7 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Brooks Ridge Park

Park
7 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

514 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
480 ac
County
281 ac
Town or city
21 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.6 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.3 mi

Courts & fields

  • Beach volleyball1

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

Nearby

Bristol and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Bristol2.4%1.8 mi5
Sun Prairie5.8%6.9 mi45
York6.6%0.0 mi1
Windsor3.1%8.4 mi19
Sun Prairie1.2%8.2 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Bristol'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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