Outdoors · Fern

Fern, WI parks, trails & bike paths

About 57% of Fern is conserved land, roughly 12,550 acres. There are about 25 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Florence County Forest (8.2 mi).

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

At a glance

Fern outdoors

Conserved land
57%
12,550 of 22,103 acres
Trails
25 mi
0.7 mi per sq mi · 20 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
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

12
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

Florence County Forest

Nature preserve
3,871 acres8.2 mi of trail
Washburn Falls Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Pine-Popple Wild Rivers

Managed by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
636 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

12,550 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
8,878 ac
Private owners
6,479 ac
County
3,746 ac
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 4 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

Fern and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Fern56.8%25.1 mi2
Florence57.6%180.2 mi5
Commonwealth45.4%64.6 mi7
Fence57.1%69.7 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Fern'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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