Outdoors · Excelsior

Excelsior, WI parks, trails & bike paths

About 4.9% of Excelsior is conserved land, roughly 1,056 acres. There are about 1.0 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Excelsior outdoors

Conserved land
4.9%
1,056 of 21,661 acres
Trails
1.0 mi
0 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
640 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.
1

Ableman's Gorge State Natural Area

Managed by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
50 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Mirror Lake State Park

Managed by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
74 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Who protects the land

1,056 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
736 ac
State natural resources
323 ac
County
53 ac
Private owners
17 ac
Town or city
6 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 743 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 17 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

Excelsior and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Excelsior4.9%1.0 mi2
North Freedom6.8%0.1 mi1
Dellona11%8.0 mi2
Baraboo20%9.4 mi9
Delton13.9%22.4 mi6
Reedsburg1.1%0.3 mi3
Freedom10.2%0.7 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Excelsior'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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