Great Lakes - Badger Trail

For those of you in southern Wisconsin, here's some news about the Badger Trail from Adventure Cycling's email bikebits. I talked to someone who has been involved in this effort for the trail and it seems there's a group of ATV riders trying to get the trail opened for their use. So if you can make it to the ribbon cutting with your bike, it would help.

ON THE TRAIL OF CHEESEHEADS
A ribbon cutting for the newly developed Badger Trail is slated for
July 8 in the town of Belleville, Wisconsin. Although a funding cut
has postponed development of the northernmost eight miles of the trail
from Madison to Basco, the forty-five miles between Basco south to the
Illinois state line are good to go. Once the trail is completed, the
organizers predict it will become the most popular pathway in
Wisconsin, due to its proximity to Madison and the fact that it
connects the capital city with the quarter-mile-long Stewart Tunnel,
which riding through is a dark and singular experience. Click here
to learn more:
http://www.badger-trail.com

Looks like a great trail! I hope the ATVers don't get access, they would rip it up.

jw

I was up on the Sugar River trail on Monday and crossed the Badger. I also rode maybe 15 miles of the Badger last fall over by Monroe. It is a nice wide trail. Lot wider than the Sugar River. I only wish they had the money to pave it like a lot of Minnesota trails are.

I was up on the Sugar River trail on Monday and crossed the Badger. I also rode maybe 15 miles of the Badger last fall over by Monroe. It is a nice wide trail. Lot wider than the Sugar River. I only wish they had the money to pave it like a lot of Minnesota trails are.


I agree with the paving. I rode the Sugar River Trail last September from New Glarus to Brodhead and by the time I got to Brodhead, my bike was a mess. I dumped both water bottles over the gears, chain, and chain rings to get the grit off as I still had to ride back home to Beloit from Brodhead.

I was up on the Sugar River trail on Monday and crossed the Badger. I also rode maybe 15 miles of the Badger last fall over by Monroe. It is a nice wide trail. Lot wider than the Sugar River. I only wish they had the money to pave it like a lot of Minnesota trails are.
The DNR website says the Badger State Trail isn't open yet -are they allowing people to ride on it before it's open? It sounds like they've finished the southern part, and need to finish the northern part.

Where does this trail start outside of Paoli? I thought it was right off Sun Valley Parkway, but I couldn't find it.

Paoli? Oooo, I remember the State Road Race Champs outside of Paoli ... big effin' wall to climb ... UGH!!