{"id":12433,"date":"2020-07-14T13:11:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T18:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/?p=12433"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:11:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T18:11:52","slug":"fox-river-trail-detours-south-of-elgin-and-tunnel-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/about-bicycles.com\/bike-blog\/?p=12433","title":{"rendered":"Fox River Trail Detours South of Elgin and Tunnel Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, I have explored the Fox River Trail (FRT) detours<\/strong> south of Elgin, the construction \"\"<\/a>at the old stone railway bridge<\/strong> there and the Illinois Prairie Path (IPP) intersection<\/strong> that I was wondering about (obsessed with<\/em>) since my last ride on the trail when I accidently ended up on the IPP before getting on to the Stearns Road Trail SRT)<\/strong>\u00a0and back to the FRT in South Elgin.<\/p>\n

First, the FRT and IPP intersection is right where it has always been, just south of Elgin before the old stone railway bridge and tunnel. There is a lot of construction here, with large construction signs which is why I did not notice the intersection and just got on to the IPP.<\/p>\n

It turns out that the IPP is in much better condition and, in a lot of ways, a better way to get into South Elgin anyway. A lot of the FRT is closed between Elgin and South Elgin, in pretty poor condition and it appears to have not been maintained for quite a while –\u00a0but you can ride the FRT (with a few side road detours) into South Elgin if you choose to go that way.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have written up all the details and included photos<\/strong> of the detour and construction and a photo of how the new railway tunnel will look<\/strong> in a separate page on this website. See The Fox River Trail Detours page (here<\/strong>)<\/a> for more information and photos about what I have posted here.<\/p>\n

Also here is a link to the GPS Map of my ride <\/a>that I took to explore these trails on the Garmin website.<\/p>\n

And one last little technical update on this website. I finally got around to doing a pretty significant make-over of the Fox River Trail pages<\/strong> on this website. I started this website back in 2003 and have been doing updates since then. For the Fox River Trail, I originally created 2 pages, The Fox River Trail North<\/strong> page and the Fox River South<\/strong> page.<\/p>\n

Over the years I realized that this made it hard to find information on the FRT and was confusing and difficult to maintain so I have consolidated these 2 pages into one single Fox River Trail page here<\/a><\/strong>. There are still some references to the old North\/South pages but this is the new single location for photos and information on the FRT.<\/p>\n

Yea, a lot of the photos of this trail (and others) go back to 2003 too! <\/strong>Although I try to get new updated and better quality photos when I can, I have left the old ones there (even when there are new ones<\/em>) for the historical (and nostalgic<\/em>) purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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