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Brooklyn State Wildlife Area
Nature preserve
497 acres4.8 mi of trail
Ice Age TrailBlue Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Montrose
Montrose, WI parks, trails & bike paths
About 4% of Montrose is conserved land, roughly 865 acres. There are about 23 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Brooklyn State Wildlife Area (4.8 mi), Olson Oak Woods State Natural Area (1.3 mi), and Friends of School Forest Prairie (0.8 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Montrose, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Montrose outdoors
Conserved land
4%
865 of 21,634 acres
Trails
23 mi
0.7 mi per sq mi · 8 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
7
827 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.1 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 4.1 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
Olson Oak Woods State Natural Area
Nature preserve
109 acres1.3 mi of trail
Cliff Edge TrailField Edge TrailFriends Prairie Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Friends of School Forest Prairie
Nature preserve
72 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
4
Falk Wells Sugar River Wildlife Area
Nature preserve
214 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Sugar River Wildlife Area - Basco Unit
Managed by Dane County Parks
97 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land
865 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 42 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 paths4.1 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
- Badger State Trail (bike route)2.3 mi
Courts & fields
- Soccer1
- Softball1
- Beach volleyball1
- Pickleball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Montrose and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montrose | 4% | 22.7 mi | 7 |
| Belleville | 0% | 1.1 mi | 5 |
| Oregon | 11.7% | 8.9 mi | 5 |
| Primrose | 3.2% | 4.5 mi | 3 |
| Verona | 4.7% | 22.1 mi | 10 |
| Exeter | 3.4% | 7.5 mi | 2 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Montrose'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.