Outdoors · Rock Falls

Rock Falls, WI parks, trails & bike paths

About 3.1% of Rock Falls is conserved land, roughly 980 acres. There are about 13 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Merrill School Forest (4.2 mi).

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

At a glance

Rock Falls outdoors

Conserved land
3.1%
980 of 31,258 acres
Trails
13 mi
0.3 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
5
named on the map
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Merrill School Forest

Managed by Merrill Area Public Schools
761 acres4.2 mi of trail
Ice Age TrailBluejay LoopGopher PassSilver Fox Trai
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Bill Cross Wildlife Area

Managed by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
776 acres0.3 mi of trail
Ice Age Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Lincoln County Forest

Managed by Lincoln County
21 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Camp Newood County Park

Managed by Lincoln County
8 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 5 parks & preserves
  • Tug Lake County Park7 ac
Who protects the land

980 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
1,009 ac
County
4 ac
Bureau of Land Management
4 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Next door

Rock Falls and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Rock Falls3.1%13.0 mi5
Harding38.3%17.5 mi3
Birch31.8%26.9 mi3
Merrill7.8%5.9 mi4
Bradley3.8%12.7 mi2
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Rock Falls'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 27-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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