1
Thunder Lake Wildlife Area
Managed by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
3,202 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
Outdoors · Three Lakes
Three Lakes, WI parks, trails & bike paths
About 21% of Three Lakes is conserved land, roughly 13,579 acres. There are about 9.6 miles of mapped trails.
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Three Lakes, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Three Lakes outdoors
Conserved land
21%
13,579 of 63,645 acres
Trails
9.6 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
10
5,863 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
7.1 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 7.1 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
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.
2
Rice Lake State Natural Area
Managed by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
1,115 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
3
Tara Lila LLC Sundstein Road Unit
Nature preserve
565 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Rice Lake Refuge
Managed by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
272 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 10 parks & preserves
- Thunder Lake Wildlife Conservation Area83 ac
- Don Burnside Park37 ac · Directions
- Cy Williams Park4 ac · Directions
- Vilas County Forest3 ac
- Phyllis B Felland Memorial Water Ski Park1 ac
- Village Skate1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
13,579 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths7.1 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis5
- Baseball3
- Basketball1
- Football1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Three Lakes and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Three Lakes | 21.3% | 9.6 mi | 10 |
| Sugar Camp | 20.6% | 41.5 mi | 5 |
| Hiles | 82.2% | 98.2 mi | 5 |
| Washington | 31.5% | 12.4 mi | 4 |
| Piehl | 4.2% | 13.5 mi | 0 |
| Lincoln | 2.8% | 4.9 mi | 4 |
| Stella | 0% | 12.0 mi | 0 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Three Lakes'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 34-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.