Outdoors · Phelps

Phelps, WI parks, trails & bike paths

About 55% of Phelps is conserved land, roughly 37,830 acres. There are about 20 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Phelps outdoors

Conserved land
55%
37,830 of 68,908 acres
Trails
20 mi
0.2 mi per sq mi · 15 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
27,735 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.5 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 4.5 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

Blackjack Springs Wilderness

Managed by United States Forest Service
1,499 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Waverly Park

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

37,830 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Forest Service
37,682 ac
State natural resources
79 ac
Private owners
70 ac
County
1 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths4.5 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Basketball3
  • Tennis2
  • Baseball2
  • Soccer1

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Nearby

Phelps and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Phelps54.9%20.1 mi2
Conover48%35.5 mi10
Watersmeet74.7%253.5 mi10
Hiles82.2%98.2 mi5
Washington31.5%12.4 mi4
Alvin79.1%83.3 mi2
Stambaugh43.9%183.1 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Phelps'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 38.4-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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