Your
Virtual Guide to Adventure Outdoors!
SOUTHERN UNIT MOUNTAIN BIKE
TRAILS
Mountain Biking - off-road bicycling (often called mountain biking) is only allowed on trails designated for mountain biking John Muir, Emma Carlin and The Connector trail.
Hiking - Be aware that trails may vary in difficulty. Share the trails with bikers! Make your presence known in blind turn areas; or where appropriate. Not all trails are surfaced. Steep climbs or descents may be encountered. Use caution when on steep bluffs or near cliffs. Stay away from cliffs which are not protected by a barricade or barrier. Stay behind barricade and barriers where they are provided and watch small children closely. Trail surfaces can become slippery when wet, leaf covered, or where loose gravel may be encountered.
Emma Carlin Trails
Red Loop - 2.0 Miles (3.2KM)
Hardwood forest with a steep hogback ridge accent this short trail. Note the view of the
glacial sand plain as all three loops return on the same spur trail back to the parking
lot.
Orange Loop - 2.4 Miles
(3.9KM)
This loop takes you a little further into the hardwood forest. A short segment of the loop
takes you through a big dip in the terrain. The route served as a logging road about 1977
when this area was clear-cut during a hardwood timber harvest.
Green Loop - 4.0 Miles
(6.5KM)
The north side of this loop is a mixture of open and wooded areas that will treat you to
the dramatic scent of walnuts and apples. The vista at Lower Spring Lake (where on a clear
day, you can see Holy Hill) marks the point where the terrain and cover make a dramatic
change. Deep, mature, hardwood forests lead you back to the parking lot.
John Muir Trails
Red Loop - 1.5 Miles (2.4KM)
This is a good short loop through open fields, scattered pines, and hardwoods. Don't miss
resting on the bend in the spruce tree's at the bottom of this loop's only difficult
downhill.
White Loop - 4.0 Miles
(6.5KM)
The first 2 miles of this loop winds through open areas with scattered mature pines. The
return trip zigzags in and out of oak woodlands and pine plantations. Don't miss the
bird's eye view of the forest's largest leatherleaf bog. Some mountain bikers rate this a
beginners-intermediate loop.
Orange Loop - 5.3 Miles
(8.5KM)
Bikers won't forget the narrow, steep trail overlooking the largest of three leather leaf
bogs.
Green Loop - 6.8 Miles
(11KM)
This loop takes you over some of the roughest, most diverse sections of the forest. In
spring watch for some of the most spectacular displays of pasque flowers on the south end
of the loop.
Blue Loop - 10 Miles (16KM)
Some of the greatest biking trails around. Our new south loops were designed for just this
purpose. The blue loop that looks like a squirrel on a map, takes you 3.2 miles deep into
an old growth forest. Don't miss the spring display of Jack-in-the-pulpits.
Kettle
Moraine State Forest - Southern Unit
S91 W39091 Hwy 59
Eagle, Wisconsin 53119
(414) 594-6200