The Little Sugar River watershed lies in north central Green County and a very small portion of southern Dane County.
Agricultural land uses dominate, especially dairying, cash crops, and feeder operations.
New Glarus is the beginning of the Sugar River State bicycle trail which parallels the Little Sugar River and Sugar River from New Glarus to Brodhead. Burgy Creek Burgy Creek is a tributary to the West Branch Sugar River below Monticello. It's existing biological use is as a warm water forage fishery. The Little Sugar River rises in southwest Dane County and flows southeasterly to the Sugar River at the Albany millpond. Below New Glarus the stream becomes wider.