Outdoors · Verona

Verona, WI parks, trails & bike paths

About 4.7% of Verona is conserved land, roughly 675 acres. There are about 22 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Prairie Moraine County Park (6.4 mi), Badger Prairie County Park (6.3 mi), and Ice Age Trail Junction Area (3.6 mi).

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

At a glance

Verona outdoors

Conserved land
4.7%
675 of 14,259 acres
Trails
22 mi
1 mi per sq mi · 8 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
10
262 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
15.0 mi
6.8 mi lanes · 8.1 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.

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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

Prairie Moraine County Park

Managed by Dane County Parks
170 acres6.4 mi of trail
Ice Age Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Badger Prairie County Park

Managed by Dane County
238 acres6.3 mi of trail
Ice Age Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
3

Ice Age Trail Junction Area

Managed by Dane County Parks
293 acres3.6 mi of trail
Ice Age Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
4

Olson Oak Woods State Natural Area

Nature preserve
177 acres2.5 mi of trail
Wilderness TrailForestry TrailOld Wagon TrailPrairie Relic TrailBlackberry Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5

Scheidegger Forest

Managed by Dane County Parks
75 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
6

Moraine Kettles Preserve

Managed by Ice Age Trail Alliance
26 acres0.9 mi of trail
Ice Age Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
7

Falk Wells Sugar River Wildlife Area

Nature preserve
159 acres0.8 mi of trail
Falk Wells Sugar River Wildlife Area Path
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 10 parks & preserves
  • Sugar River Wildlife Area812 ac
  • Sugar River Wetlands State Natural Area264 ac · Directions
  • Reddan Soccer Park2 ac · Directions
Who protects the land

675 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
County
526 ac
State natural resources
417 ac
Town or city
10 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes6.8 mi
  • Off-road bike paths8.1 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.1 mi

Courts & fields

  • Soccer6
  • Tennis1

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

Next door

Verona and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Verona4.7%22.1 mi10
Verona4.2%12.8 mi36
Madison9.6%153.8 mi261
Springdale3.1%14.4 mi2
Fitchburg8.3%18.8 mi58
Middleton5.5%24.3 mi19
Montrose4%22.7 mi7
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Verona'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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