Outdoors · Presque Isle

Presque Isle, WI parks, trails & bike paths

About 8.6% of Presque Isle is conserved land, roughly 4,193 acres. There are about 36 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Catherine Wolter Wilderness Area (8.3 mi) and Northern Highland American Legion State Forest (5.9 mi).

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

At a glance

Presque Isle outdoors

Conserved land
8.6%
4,193 of 48,730 acres
Trails
36 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 8 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
named on the map
Bike routes
0.2 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.2 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

Catherine Wolter Wilderness Area

Managed by The Nature Conservancy
2,839 acres8.3 mi of trail
Dogs usually not allowedTypical for Nature Conservancy preserves. Check posted rules
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Northern Highland American Legion State Forest

Managed by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
7,491 acres5.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
3

Guido Rahr, Sr. Tenderfoot Forest Reserve

Nature preserve
389 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Pipke Park

Managed by Town of Presque Isle
53 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

4,193 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
3,520 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
3,188 ac
County
526 ac
Bureau of Land Management
57 ac
U.S. Forest Service
20 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 24 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 paths0.2 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis2
  • Baseball2

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

Nearby

Presque Isle and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Presque Isle8.6%36.4 mi5
Winchester0.2%22.4 mi2
Boulder Junction0.6%67.7 mi4
Marenisco59.7%280.9 mi7
Land O'Lakes9%66.5 mi6
Bessemer44.6%68.1 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Presque Isle'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 32-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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