Northern Wisconsin · opening for the 2026 season

The map we wish we had years ago.

Built by upland bird chasers, for upland bird chasers. Public land, the county grouse sheets, aspen by age and the coverts you keep — on one map, in your pocket, with no signal.

Public hunting land shaded red with county forest grouse area maps laid over aerial imagery, marks dropped across it
120county & forest sheets
6northern counties
Offlineno signal needed

What's on it

Everything in one place, instead of three apps

Wisconsin has done real work assembling this information. We put it on one map so you stop flipping between apps to answer a single question.

The ground, and who owns it

Public land and the Managed Forest Law parcels a landowner opened to the public — a great deal of the north, and almost none of it obvious from the road.

  • State, county and federal ground
  • MFL open, the private forest you may legally walk
  • Tax parcels and ownership
Layers panel with public hunting land switched on over aerial imagery

Coverts you keep, season to season

Mark the cut, the corner, the gate you park at. Every mark carries a date and a note, so you can see what a covert did three seasons running instead of trying to remember in August.

  • Grouse, woodcock, deer, blinds, cabins, trail heads
  • Dated, grouped by year or by type
  • Tracks of the walk you actually took
Saved marks listed beside aerial imagery with pins dropped on the ground

Drumming survey results

Where the state counted drumming males, mapped. A decent first guess at which block of young aspen is worth the walk.

  • Survey routes across the northern counties
  • Counts read straight off the DNR's own report
  • Read it beside the aspen and the public land
Drumming survey routes mapped across northern Wisconsin county forest

Your party, and nobody else

Grouse hunting is some of the deepest bonding we get, so sharing came first rather than last. Put the two or three people you actually hunt with in a party and what you mark, they see.

  • Share pins, routes and notes live
  • Private by default — nothing is public
  • Keep your own coverts out of it if you want
Party screen showing the hunters sharing a party

The trip, not just the hunt

The beer we haul up and vote on, the food, the running list of things worth arguing about after dark. It is part of our tradition — we would be glad if it became part of yours.

  • Nominate a beer and let the party vote it in
  • Food and gear lists everyone can add to
  • Topics worth settling around the fire
Trip screen with beers nominated for the weekend and the party voting on them

Why we built it

Grouse season is close to a religious experience for the four of us. We wanted something that met our grouse hunting tradition with precision and thought, so we built Upland Maps — and we would like to share it with the community we love.

It is still being built. Tell us what is broken or missing — or just tell us about the bird that got up when you had stopped expecting one.

— Phil, Nick, Matt & Chris

Pricing

A few dollars, from all of us, keeps it going

There are servers to pay for and new sheets to chase down every year. Spread across enough of us who hunt these woods, that comes to very little each — which is rather the point.

Public land

$1.99/ year

  • Public hunting land — state, county, federal
  • Managed Forest Law, open to the public
  • Aerial, topo and street basemaps
  • Tax parcels and ownership
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Opening for the 2026 season

Contact

Questions, something the map is missing, or a story from last season. We are glad to hear any of it.