Outdoors · Polk

Polk, WI parks, trails & bike paths

About 3.1% of Polk is conserved land, roughly 615 acres. There are about 3.7 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Polk Kames (2.9 mi).

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

At a glance

Polk outdoors

Conserved land
3.1%
615 of 19,787 acres
Trails
3.7 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
6
155 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.1 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.1 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

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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

Polk Kames

Managed by WI DNR
449 acres2.9 mi of trail
Ice Age Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Heritage Trails County Park

Park
253 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Ackerman's Grove County Park

Park
65 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Polk Park

Park
35 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

615 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
444 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
124 ac
County
63 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 124 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 paths0.1 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Soccer3
  • Equestrian1

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

Nearby

Polk and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Polk3.1%3.7 mi6
Slinger0.5%3.2 mi5
Jackson2.7%0.0 mi4
Richfield1.4%3.6 mi5
West Bend1.4%17.3 mi6
Hartford3.5%10.6 mi6
Jackson13.4%3.7 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Polk'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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