Trail Conditions: Early Season
Snow Cover: 0-5
Date of Report: January 28, 2025
Area Report:
A warmup is underway, unfortunately. No additional trail reports at this time, but lake riding remains good, except for the numerous ice heaves all around the area. Take note that Trail 31 across Lac Courte Oreilles is closed at this time. Please use other trails as a route around.
⚠️LCO – TRAIL 31 CLOSED Ice heave across whole lake from west side of Chicago Bay to the Whitefish Creek/Golden Shores area. ⚠️
***PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STAY ON THE TRAIL AS THERE ARE MANY HEAVES AND MORE CAN FORM AT ANYTIME! DRIVE WITH CAUTION AND AT SAFE SPEEDS. WE HAVE NOTED EXISTING HEAVES WE KNOW ABOUT BUT THIS WARNING APPLIES FOR ALL LAKES. CRUCIAL FOR YOUR SAFETY!!
Just to recap the heaves reported:
⚠️Nelson Lake – Hard Rock Cr to main Lake. Is not marked, club will monitor it this week.
⚠️Round Lake – across from Busse to Linden boat launch. Does run across the trail and there are caution signs at the heave near the marked trail area.
⚠️Long Lake – Little Bear to Boy Scout land. Is marked
⚠️ Chippewa Flowage – Sisko’s Pine Point Resort by landing. They have stakes warning ⚠️ Second heave reported going south in narrows towards Cranberry Lake on east side of Flowage. Not staked, will check it this week
⚠️Grindstone – in front of Williams Bay. Not staked
⚠️Lake Namakagon- between Garden Lake & Namakagon, just off of Duck Point