Biking Millennium & Fort Hill Trails

Another 16 mile ride yesterday on my most ridden trail (2 or 3 times a week since it is right out my door.) The increasing profusion of wildflower beauty is a feast for the eyes, mind, and soul, and the additional 4+ miles of the new Fort Hill Trail is a bonus of both mileage and magnificent scenery.



If you click and enlarge this photo, you might make out the black and yellow bee in the center, one of about six that were flitting about here...


The Fort Hill Trail is an amazing and much-appreciated addition to the Lakewood Forest Preserve trail system. And as wonderful as the new trail is, the Loop Trail that branches off of it is delicious icing on the cake. The Loop Trail is the golf cart path for the former Four Winds Golf Club and it takes you on a tour of the lovely grounds of the old golf course. For a lengthy time, this scenic trail has been closed awaiting replacement of the two old concrete bridges over the creek, but I had a nice surprise today: They've opened about half the loop to traffic (sans the bridges)! Thank you LCFPD!

Now we anxiously await the extension of the Fort Hill Trail into Ray Lake Farm Preserve, and also the extension of the north end of the Millennium Trail into Marl Flat Preserve (and hopefully over to the shore of Fish Lake.)