Bark Bay Slough State Natural Area
Nature preserve
128 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors in Herbster
Parks, trails & the outdoors in Herbster
About 4.8% of Herbster is conserved land, roughly 168 acres. Herbster has 2 named parks and preserves on the map.
Conserved land
4.8%
168 of 3,538 acres
Trails
0.9 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
named on the map
Bike routes
0.0 mi
What kind of outdoors town is Herbster?
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Conserved land, trails & bike routes
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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
★ What stands out · Things to do
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South Shore Lake Superior Fish and Wildlife Area
Managed by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
45 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Trails & water
1 named trail
Named trails
Unpaved · 0.9 mi
67 Campers Hideaway0.3 mi
Who protects it
168 conserved acres
Who manages Herbster’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources207 ac
County75 ac
Private owners2 ac
State Conservation Area · 239 acState Recreation Area · 39 acConservation Easement · 4 acPrivate Conservation · 2 ac
Good to know
Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 2 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. The walks above are places people visit.
The biggest protected places
| Place | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bark Bay Slough State Natural Area State Conservation Area | State natural resources | 125 | Restricted |
| Natural Area State Conservation Area | County | 75 | Restricted |
| South Shore Lake Superior Fish State Conservation Area | State natural resources | 39 | Restricted |
| South Shore of Lake Superior Fish and Wildlife Area - Cranberry River Unit State Recreation Area | State natural resources | 39 | Open |
| South Shore Lake Superior Fish And Private Conservation | Private owners | 2 | Closed |
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Herbster and its neighbors
Herbster has the second most mapped trails of the 2 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.
| Town | Conserved | Parks |
|---|---|---|
| Herbster | 4.8% | 2 |
| Clover | 47.7% | 3 |
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Trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, 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.