Well now that it is freezing cold here in Chicagoland and not even close to riding weather (for me anyway), I finally got a chance to update our website with the bike trail information and photos from the Southern Wisconsin Bike Trails that we rode this past riding season.

A section of the Kenosha Bike Trail along Lake Michigan

I was looking for some new bike trails last year and wanted to find some that were still within day-trip distance from where we live ~ in Chicagoland. I succeeded and found some really nice trails that were not too far and, a few that ran right along Lake Michigan.

Although I had ridden the Kenosha Bike Trail before, I rode some different parts of the trail this past year and also on some of the connecting trails including the Root River Trail and the Racine County Bike Trail.  See the Root River, Racine Trail Pages for details and photos of this ride.

We rode these trails on August 1st (2015) and just happened to be there at the same time as Taste of Wisconsin and the Pike River Rendezvous at Simmons Island Park both in Kenosha on that weekend so that was really quite a fun ride and trip.

In the spring, we rode the White River Bike Trail that runs out of Burlington, Wisconsin. There is one branch of this trail that heads out of Burlington going west and one branch that goes east. We rode both of them for a total of 35 miles. See the White River Trail Pages for the details on this trail.

Later in the fall we rode the Oak Leaf Trail near the town of South Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I just posted the pages and photos from this ride today. This was a nice 32 mile ride that also included some parts of the path along Lake Michigan.

Lake Michigan and Milwaukee as seen from the Oak Leaf Trail

The Oak Leaf Trail photo that I’ve included here shows a faint view of the Milwaukee skyline (in the distance and through the mist) from a view of Lake Michigan on the northern part of the trail.

See the Oak Leaf Trail pages for the ride report, photos and details of this trail.

We also took a trip in the other direction (south) and rode the Old Plank Trail out of Mokena, Illinois. This was a much nicer ride than I thought it would be but I do not yet have the details and photos for this ride posted yet… So Stay Tuned!