Reporter:Price County Tourism Department
Trail Conditions: Excellent
Snow Cover: 3 – 8 inch trail base
Date of Report: February 20, 2018
Area Report:
All trails are open and in excellent to very good condition. Due to recent warm weather, the snow base may be thin on trails near towns, in open areas, and at road crossings; road routes may be bare. The trails received a couple inches of fresh snow Monday. The trails are being groomed on a regular basis.
Some Price County trails are on private land. The use of the private land is a PRIVILEGE, not a right. Please stay on marked trails, especially across fields. There have been many complaints from landowners due to snowmobilers not staying on the trail and riding all over their fields. To avoid having these TRAILS CLOSED, PLEASE respect the private land that is open to snowmobiling.
Several miles of trail are open for winter ATV and UTV riding including the Flambeau Trail System, Solberg Trail, and Georgetown Trail. The Price County portion of the Pine Line Rail Trail (Prentice to Ogema), Snowmobile Trail 189 (Ogema to Timm’s Hill), and Snowmobile Trails 116, 181 and 118 (Prentice area loop) are also open to winter ATV and UTV riding when the trail is officially open to snowmobile use and the temperature is 28 degrees or colder.
You can order visitor information or maps from the Price County Tourism Department website, www.pricecountywi.net, or call 715-339-4505, plus you can listen to recorded trail reports or talk to the friendly Tourism Department staff.
News and Reports:
Upcoming Events:
February 24 – Northwoods Hi-Riders One-Day Poker Run, Phillips
March 3 – Driftsplitters Pancake Breakfast, Kennan
Some SNOW yesterday afternoon & last night. Maybe 2-3 inches east of Eagle River. Not as much as I would have liked, but we will take it. It’s 22 at 7:20am moving to a high of 32. Overcast all day!
Sno-Eagles Snowmobile Club
All the trails we rode were groomed over night. Found Trail 17N win pretty good shape with the usual snirt on the north side of the road. Manske Swamp trail was smooth & snow covered for the most part. 10W/13N thinner SNOW with icy blown spots. The One Way Trail was filled with lots of white SNOW and smooth. 13S from the Buckatabon Shelter was mostly SNOW covered with some icy corners. 10W off of 13S was the thinnest. Also grainy, snirty & icy. When we hopped onto 7 toward Eagle River there was plenty of white SNOW again and trails smooth. 70W heading toward Eagle River was thin & icy on the high ridge area that is across the highway from the Wisconsin River. Great view from up there. In the woods 70W was better but still could use more SNOW & is icy. The section from Cloverland Rd to the highway crossing from the south side to the north side had SNOW but it was snirty. The last leg on the north side to the Eagle River Inn & Resort was SNOW covered. From the Eagle River Inn to Trail 13N/3 intersection behind the Dairy Queen was in not good shape. Very snirty, ice & thin of SNOW. The “grade” back to the Derby Track is in pretty good shape. SNOW covered. Our ride into town & back on the “grade” and 10E had all sorts of conditions. The “grade” was EXCELLENT both in & back. 10E on the north side heading to town is a combination of SNOW covered, ice, snirt & even few spots of dirt. 10E on the south side heading home is much better. All SNOW covered. All trails could use more SNOW. About an inch or so today & a bit of “wintery mix” that iced our helmet shields. Popped my shield open for most of the day. Snow pretty hard at 5:17pm 6 miles east of Eagle River.
