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B−Outdoors
Outdoors in Bashaw

Few parks or trails are on the map in Bashaw

756 acres are parks and preserves, 721 per 1,000 residents. 0.9 miles of mapped trail cross Bashaw. 33% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

Ahead of 48% of U.S. towns. What drives it

Conserved land
4%
767 acres · of 33.2 sq mi of land
Trails
0.9 mi
0.0 per sq mi of land
Park land
756 ac
721 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
33%
of residents within ½ mile
Lakes & rivers
6

What kind of outdoors town is Bashaw?

Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.

Room to roam721 acres of park per 1,000 residents; the typical U.S. town has 13.
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Bashaw have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Bashaw is ahead of 48% of U.S. towns. Park acres per resident hold the grade up; trail miles pull it down.

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OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Bashaw’s overall grade.
Conserved land4% of the land · typical WI town 4% · U.S. 4%B−Trails0.0 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (1 mi) · WI 0.4 · U.S. 0.4C−Park land721 acres of park per 1,000 residents (756 acres) · WI 31 · U.S. 13A+Parks close to home33% of residents within a half mile of a park · WI 90% · U.S. 72%C
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 48%
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NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Bashaw. OpenStreetMap is mapped by volunteers and coverage varies from town to town, so a town with unmapped parks scores low on them.
How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would range from C to B. Trails and many small parks come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by volunteers, so coverage varies from town to town; the half mile is a straight line from each census block, so a river or highway in the way isn’t counted against it.

PAD-US, OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), Census 2025 Gazetteer and 2020 blocks; details in Sources below. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →

The map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it.

Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Who protects it

767 conserved acres

4% of Bashaw’s land. Who manages Bashaw’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

State natural resources793 ac
Private owners26 ac
State Recreation Area · 753 acState Conservation Area · 34 acRecreation or Education Easement · 18 acPrivate Conservation · 7 acState Resource Management Area · 5 ac
Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 1 acre is a conservation easement, usually private land. The walks above are places people visit.

The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Sawyer Creek Fishery Area
State Recreation Area
State natural resources721Open
Tozer State Spring Ponds
State Recreation Area
State natural resources32Open
Statewide Spring Ponds
State Conservation Area
State natural resources29Open
Statewide Wildlife Habitat
Private Conservation
Private owners7Closed
State Owned Islands
State Conservation Area
State natural resources5Open
State Owned Islands - Nw
State Resource Management Area
State natural resources5Open
Trails & water

1 named trail and 6 lakes & rivers

Named trails
Open to bikes · 0.9 mi
Abandoned Railroad0.9 mi
Lakes & rivers tap for directions
Beaver Lodge PondLong LakelakeStarkey LakeTozer LakelakeNorth Fork Clam RiverYellow River
When to get out

The walking year in Bashaw

NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals for the town and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 59 to 86 °F and little rain for the place.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)9.010.311.813.514.915.715.414.112.510.89.48.7
High (°F)212739536776807869553926
Rain (in)0.91.01.62.83.84.24.24.03.63.11.81.3

January is the driest month (0.9 in) and July the warmest (highs of 80 °F). 4.2 inches fall in June, the wettest month. The climate in Bashaw →

Next door

Bashaw and its neighbors

Tap a town to see its outdoors.

Beaver Brook28 miBarronett10 miSpooner3.9 miDewey1.5 miShell Lake1.3 miBashaw0.9 mi
TownConserved
of land		Trail mi
per sq mi		Park acres
per 1,000		Near a park
½ mile		Outdoors
Bashaw4%under 0.172133%B−
Beaver Brook— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Shell Lake4%0.215672%B+
Dewey— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town
Spooner7%1.011699%+A
Barronett— not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.

Questions about parks and trails in Bashaw

How much of Bashaw is conserved land?

4% of its land, against a typical 4% for a Wisconsin town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Is there public land near Bashaw?

36,159 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Bashaw or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 756 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Bashaw have?

Ahead of 48% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade. The grade combines the share of land that is conserved, miles of mapped trail per square mile of land, park acres per 1,000 residents and the share of residents within a half mile of a park. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

Trail talk

Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Bashaw neighbors.

Town Square →
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Sources

Where this page comes from

Conserved and public land: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), service updated July 2026. Parks, trails, playgrounds, beaches and other places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), map data as of 2026-10-28. Land and water area: Census 2025 Gazetteer. Residents near a park: 2020 Census blocks. National Register: National Park Service. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →