Outdoors · Dane

Dane, WI parks, trails & bike paths

About 6.4% of Dane is conserved land, roughly 1,423 acres. There are about 5.2 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Lodi Marsh State Wildlife Area (4 mi).

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

At a glance

Dane outdoors

Conserved land
6.4%
1,423 of 22,273 acres
Trails
5.2 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
1
908 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.
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Lodi Marsh State Wildlife Area

Managed by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
920 acres4 mi of trail
Ice Age Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

1,423 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
1,058 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
377 ac
County
352 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 379 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 3 of 11 parcels. 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

Dane and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Dane6.4%5.2 mi1
Dane0%0.4 mi4
Roxbury5.5%7.4 mi7
Springfield5.6%8.8 mi3
Vienna0.8%1.2 mi5
Lodi2.5%4.0 mi5
West Point2.8%8.6 mi6
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Dane'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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