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The Green Bay Bike Trail,
Illinois
The Green Bay Bike Trail and
Robert McClory Bike Path from Great Lakes, Il. to Glencoe, Illinois.
The Robert McClory Bike Path (northern extension of the Green Bay Bike Trail) at
Lake Bluff |
The Green Bay Bike Trail winding through the North Shore neighborhoods... |
The "Glencoe" GreenBay Trail (southern section) |
The Green Bay Bike Trail (Illinois) - OK, here's
the thing (as Adrian Monk says...), this article actually includes info and
photos from the Green Bay Bike Trail, the Robert McClory Bike Path and the North Shore
Bike Trail. All of these trails connect and at some points in time were also renamed
and I believe that people either get confused about the names of just refer to the paths
by the names that they have been familiar with, regardless of the current path names...
For this article, I am going to go by the
trail names that I have seen posted on the bike paths and have listed in the latest North
Eastern Illinois bike map that I have. So here's how I see it, based on my rides and
maps...
The actual Green Bay Bike Trail is about 18 miles and goes from Wilmette, Il, (at the southern end) to Lake Bluff, Il,
where it turns into the Robert McClory Bike Path (previously known as the
Lake County section of the Green Bay trail and the north/south leg of the North Shore bike
path... Sheesh...). The Robert McClory bike path then continues on north into Wisconsin as
the Kenosha County BIke Trail. The North Shore Bike Trail (East/West)
intersects with the GreenBay Trail in Lake Bluff also and continues west to the Des Plaines River Trail (which is one of my favorites!) and continues on into Mundelein, Illinois.
The photos and this article are mostly from a
trip that we took on a freezing day in May 2005 (when they said "cooler by the
lake" (a well known Chicago phrase), in this case they really meant it!). It was May,
so the trees had started to fill in a little and it was getting warmer (away from the lake
anyway...).
Anyway, we started our trip in Highwood, Il
and went north to the Naval Hospital in Great Lakes, Illinois (Southern part of North
Chicago). We turned around here, because we wanted to see the southern part of the trail
(and I had heard that it was not as nice going through North Chicago and Waukegan (and
based on my experience driving through the area, I think that is true)).
We then back tracked through Highwood again,
then through Highland Park, past Ravinia (outdoor concert theater) and into Glencoe before
we gave up, mostly due to the cold weather... So the photos are from the Naval Hospital at
Great Lakes (north) to Glencoe (south).
The North Shore path has some nice areas, but it mostly goes alongside the highway
(Route 176) and isn't really that scenic... then again, it is a nice connection between
the Des Plaines
River Trail and the Green Bay Bike Trail (this
one)...
I hope you can browse the Green Bay Trail,
Robert McClory Trail Photo Tour (below) for some more first hand descriptions and
the photos of the bike paths...(I've kept the format to medium sized and medium quality
photos split into multiple pages to keep the download times reasonable for all
contentions, including dial ups).
Green Bay Trail, Robert McClory Trail Photos
Here's a photo tour of the
Green Bay and Robert McClory Bike trails (including references to the North Shore Bike
Trail) from Highwood north to Great Lakes, Illinois then south to Glencoe, Illinois. These
pictures are from early May, 2005.
Green Bay
Bike Trail Photos 1
Green Bay Bike Trail Photos 2
Green Bay Bike Trail Photos 3
Green Bay Bike Trail Photos 4
Green Bay Bike Trail Photos 5
Green Bay Bike Trail Photos 6
I hope you enjoy the photo tour and hope it
inspires you to take the trail(s) in the spring, summer or fall and/or provides a nice
memory of your trips in the winter when you may not be able to get out there and enjoy the
"destination".
The Ride is the Destination
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