The Des Plaines River Trail Photos
County Line Road to Wheeling

The trail does not actually end here as the sign says. This is just the end of the Lake County part of the DPRT. The actual trail continues on south into Cook County from here.

A closer view of the DPR trail and the ramp leading to the bridge over Lake Cook Road. This is a very long ramp and a huge bridge over the highway.

There is a crushed stone softer part of the trail leading to the bridge on the left with the paved part of the trail on the right.

This is a view of the high wall (on the left) and the ramp to the bridge that crosses Lake cook Road.

You can see the deep forest and drop off to the right of this knotted tree along the DPR Trail. The bridge is very high over the highway so it's a pretty steep ramp to ride up and you get pretty high above the woods too.

This is up on the large steel bridge where the Des Plaines River Trail crosses County Line Road.

The bridge is fenced in on top as you can see in the photo above looking down Lake-Cook Road.

After crossing the bridge at Lake-Cook Road we get into the Cook County part of the DPRT. Further south on the trail we still have pretty wooded sections with many fallen trees also. 

It real obvious now when you cross into the Cook County part of the trail since it is not maintained nearly as well as the Lake County part of the trail.

Here is a wide angle view of the Des Plaines River Trail Just south of Lake Cook Road, near Patawatomi Woods. Click on the photo above to see the larger wide angle view.

This is the pavilion at Patawatomi Woods in Wheeling (yea, I had to lookup the spelling on that one!).

This is as you come up to the very busy Dundee Road crossing. This looked impossible to cross (in rush hour) but there is a sidewalk (on both sides) that you can take to the intersection of Milwaukee Ave and Dundee where you can cross at the light. I just turned around here for this trip.

On my way back I noticed this sign as you go north and enter the Cubby Bear parking lot. Now that's the kind of sign I like to see! 
Bikers Welcome! :-)