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Whitnall Park
Managed by Milwaukee County Parks
393 acres6.9 mi of trail
Warbler Bridge
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Franklin
Franklin, WI parks, trails & bike paths
About 8.7% of Franklin is conserved land, roughly 1,917 acres. There are about 23 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Whitnall Park (6.9 mi), Grobschmidt Park (2.1 mi), and Root River Parkway (0.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Franklin, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Franklin outdoors
Conserved land
8.7%
1,917 of 22,074 acres
Trails
23 mi
0.7 mi per sq mi · 21 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
20
53 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
15.0 mi
2.8 mi lanes · 11.0 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
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.
2
Grobschmidt Park
Park
141 acres2.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Root River Parkway
Park
1,954 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Legends Park
Park
43 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Franklin Woods Nature Center
Park
39 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Jack Workman Park
Park
13 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 20 parks & preserves
- Meadowlands Park10 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Pleasant View Park23 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Christine Rathke Memorial Park4 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Franklin Park162 ac
- Countryside Park126 ac
- Croatian Park28 ac
- Mayer Land Preservation23 ac
- Saint Martins Park20 ac
- Froemming Park16 ac
- Ernie Lake Park14 ac
- Mission Hills Wetland13 ac · Directions
- Southwood Glen Park8 ac
- Lions Club Softball Fields8 ac · Directions
- Ken Windl4 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
1,917 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes2.8 mi
- Off-road bike paths11.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes1.2 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball29
- Pickleball17
- Soccer11
- Tennis11
- Beach volleyball8
- Volleyball8
- Basketball4
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Franklin and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin | 8.7% | 23.1 mi | 20 |
| Greendale | 22.6% | 6.0 mi | 16 |
| Muskego | 7.4% | 32.9 mi | 17 |
| Hales Corners | 14.6% | 6.9 mi | 6 |
| Oak Creek | 11% | 17.8 mi | 29 |
| Raymond | 0.3% | 0.0 mi | 1 |
| Greenfield | 2.9% | 4.9 mi | 15 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Franklin'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.