This past Sunday (Easter Sunday) I was in Winnetka and had an opportunity to ride the Green Bay Trail and get some new photos. I have ridden the entire Green Bay Trail ~ and even the connecting Robert McClory Trail ~ in the past and the GBT is a really beautiful and scenic bike route so I did not want to pass up the opportunity to ride this trail again.

The Gazebo at the Henry J Kalk Park along the GBT in Glencoe

I also had a batch of photos of the southern end of the Green Bay Trail (from Glencoe south to Wilmette) that I had lost (!) so I did not have photos of the southern part of the bike trail posted ~ until yesterday that is!

It was a beautiful day on Sunday (a little chilly but still nice) and on the first part of my ride I felt like I was in the Easter Parade! 🙂 There were a lot of people out on the trail ~ riding, walking, jogging ~ in the mid-afternoon.

I started my ride in Winnetka but headed south to the southern end of the trail ~ in Wilmette ~ so I could ride the entire trail. I stopped a lot on my way north for photos (for this site). It is always great to have the photos but it is not nearly as nice, as far as the bike ride goes, to stop all the time for the photos (although I do like taking the photos too).

I rode the entire GBT ~ through Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, and Highland Park ~ and a little bit of the southern part of the Robert McClory Trail up to Highwood. I stopped at Central Park, in Highland Park ~ on Lake Michigan ~ for a short break and a beautiful view of the lake. Then for the ride back, I just rode (no photos) and it was a really nice ride.

I have had the Green Bay Trail page and photos on this bike site since 2005 but, as I mentioned above, I was missing the southern section (south of Glencoe). Yesterday, I did some updates to the original Green Bay Trail page Here , have added a few photos to the original batch and have added 3 new photo pages of the GBT starting with Green Bay Trail Photo Page 7 (including page 8 and 9).

Back in 2007 I had one of the GBT photos featured in an article in the North Shore Magazine (that photo is on the top of Photo Page 5). I actually think that this round of photos is much better so I maybe if I get lucky I can get another one published in hard-copy form. 🙂

Anyway, the GBT is still a really nice bike trail and an excellent ride. There are also some nice places to head a few blocks east out to Lake Michigan for some excellent scenery. At the time of my ride there was no construction or detours on the trail so it is wide open this year.

For those of you who live in the Chicagoland area (or will be visiting here) I hope you can get out to the GBT at some point.