Outdoors · New Glarus

New Glarus, WI parks, trails & bike paths

About 3.6% of New Glarus is conserved land, roughly 768 acres. There are about 7.2 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in New Glarus Woods State Park (6.3 mi).

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

At a glance

New Glarus outdoors

Conserved land
3.6%
768 of 21,624 acres
Trails
7.2 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 6 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
527 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
2.4 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 2.4 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

New Glarus Woods State Park

Managed by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
428 acres6.3 mi of trail
Havenridge Nature TrailBison Nature TrailWalnut TrailBasswood Nature TrailVista Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Wilhelm Tell Shooting Park

Park
4 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Veterans Memorial Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

768 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
522 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
245 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 322 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 paths2.4 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Nearby

New Glarus and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
New Glarus3.6%7.2 mi3
Primrose3.2%4.5 mi3
Exeter3.4%7.5 mi2
York0.8%0.4 mi1
Washington0.3%2.0 mi0
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about New Glarus'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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