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The Illinois State Beach Bike Path
A nice part of the Illinois State Beach trail at the North Point Marina. |
Here's one of the winding trails that goes
through some of the wooded parts of the park (still very close to the
beach). |
There's nothing like riding along side Lake Michigan!
This is a common scene on the Illinois State Beach Bike Path. |
The Illinois State Beach Bike Paths run right along
side the Lake Michigan beaches and into the slightly wooded areas of the
park. They are an absolutely beautiful and scenic place to ride! It's not
the best place for a real long distance ride, but there are quite a few
trails that you can take to keep you pretty busy for an afternoon.
We took a pretty long bike ride on the day
that we rode the bike paths at the Illinois State Beach State Park but you
could also take your bike with you, along with your swimming suit, for a day
at the beach and a nice bike ride by Lake Michigan.
Our Illinois State Beach Bike Trip
The photos in the photo tour section for this trail
are from July, 2008 where we started our trip on the Robert McClory Bike Path at the Lake Bluff
train station (just off of route 176) and went north to the WIsconsin
border, and the Kenosha trail, then came back south and branched off of the
RM trail at 9th street where we headed east to the North Point Marina and
the Illinois State Beach park. My favorite part of this trip was
our side trip to the the park.
We also made our way to the Nuclear Power
Plant, just south of the park. That is a pretty awesome and somewhat eerie
place. It was a pretty nice area, but I had this strange glow when I went to
bed that night . :-) (just kidding...)
After taking quite a long trip on the Illinois State Beach
bike trails, we eventually headed west on Wadsworth Road back to the Robert
McClory Trail.
Illinois State Beach Bike PathPhotos
Here's a photo tour of the Illinois State Beach Bike Path along
side beautiful Lake Michigan!
The Illinois State Beach Bike Path Photo Tour - along Lake Michigan - July 2008.
Illinois State Beach Bike Path
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The Ride is the Destination
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