Outdoors · Delta

Delta, WI parks, trails & bike paths

About 57% of Delta is conserved land, roughly 26,170 acres. There are about 44 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Rainbow Lake Wilderness (6.1 mi) and White River Fishery Area (2.4 mi).

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

At a glance

Delta outdoors

Conserved land
57%
26,170 of 45,787 acres
Trails
44 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi · 39 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Rainbow Lake Wilderness

Managed by United States Forest Service
3,609 acres6.1 mi of trail
North Country Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

White River Fishery Area

Nature preserve
3,478 acres2.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Inch Lake State Natural Area

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

Delta County Park

Managed by Bayfield County
22 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

26,170 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Forest Service
21,898 ac
State natural resources
4,378 ac
County
216 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
182 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
30 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 290 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

Delta and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Delta57.2%43.6 mi5
Drummond80.9%94.7 mi5
Barnes52.7%128.7 mi4
Keystone32.5%33.5 mi2
Iron River29%40.0 mi5
Mason9.9%12.1 mi3
Hughes69.2%65.4 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Delta'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 27.5-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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