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The Cannonball Path, Madison

The Cannonball Path is one of the many bike paths that meet just south of Madison, Wisconsin in the unique Bike Roundabout or Multi-Trail intersection. The trail is paved, smooth and flat and is a little over 4 miles from McKee Road to Fish Hatchery Road.

The Cannonball Path just south of the bridge over the Beltline Hwy

This is actually just off of the Cannonball Trail on a path to Ashbourn Pond.

* The Bike Trail Roundabout signs just south of Madison

Our Ride on the Cannonball Path Bike Trail

We started our ride in Verona, Wisconsin, just southwest of Madison, and actually intended to ride the Military Ridge Trail (MRT) west toward Dodgeville. We only made it about 3 1/2 miles before we ran into a tunnel that went under Hwy 151/18 that was flooded pretty badly.

We decided not to attempt riding through the flood in this case and turned around to go back to Verona to look for another place to ride. Some people in the parking lot there suggested the Military Ridge Trail East so we took that route instead.

After heading northeast about 3 miles on the MRT, we came to the Bike Roundabout Miut i-Trail Intersection. This is an amazing bike trail connection! I had never seen anything like this and it took a while to figure out where we wanted to go (first anyway). There are 5 different bike trail that intersect here.

I had read online that the Cannonball Path actually starts at McKee Road, just before this intersection so, based on that, we had already been on the Cannonball Path but we decided to continue in the same general direction on the rest of the Cannonball Path.

We didn't make it to the end of the trail at Fish Hatchery Road but we were pretty close to it at the bridge that goes over the Beltline Highway where we turned around.

Trail Information:

The Cannonball Path is all paved and was in great condition when we rode it in late June, 2018. The trail is mostly flat with some inclines as you go over the bridges.

There are very few roads to cross and the busy ones have bridges over them. In addition the the 4 other trails that you can connect to at the Bike Roundabout, there are also a few others that you can get to and explore from this trail.

The Photo Tour below includes more details of our ride and plenty of first-hand ride information to go along with the photos. I took the photos on the way back, starting where we turned around at the Beltline Highway.

 

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The Cannonball Trail Maps

I am including the Google Maps version of the trail, so you can get right to it without having to search and zoom in. I am also including my GPS map on the Garmin Connect SIte,

Each map has different features that can be helpful so you can take your pick of which one you like the best.

Here is the Google Maps version of the Cannonball Path.

Here is the GPS Map of Our Ride on the Cannonball Path (and 4 other trails) through the GarminConnect site.

Google Street/Trail View - I also generated this Google Street View 3D spherical image at the Multi-Trail Intersection so you can see what the trail intersection looks like here. After viewing the image, close the image with the " X" to see the map location..

Google Photo Sphere of the Bike Roundabout or Multi-Trail Intersection.

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Cannonball Path Photo Tour

Here's the photo tour of the Cannonball Path with plenty of first hand riding details. This ride was from June, 2018.

Cannonball Path Bike Trail Home < you are here

Cannonball Path Photos -Beltline Hwy to Multi-Trail Intersection

Photos © Copyright Rob Chapman, about-bicycles.com. Photos with * Copyright Dale Kiffel.