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 old 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, replete with lovely old water hazards.

Nature has been reclaiming the greens and fairways and forest is in the future for much of this area...

There is also an old service road used by the golf course maintenance vehicles back in the day, and now utilized by the forest preserve vehicles. I call it my "mountain bike trail" and though it's less than a mile long, it is the only "mountain bike trail" in Lake County, something i wish the FPDLC would remedy and build a venue for fat tire bikes.

The extension of the Fort Hill Trail into neighboring Ray Lake Farm Forest Preserve, and also the extension of the north end of the Millennium Trail into Marl Flat Preserve and beyond to the disc golf course on Fairfield Road now offers even longer rides.