Fox River Bike Trail South Photos
South Elgin Dam to Winding Hills Area

(Click on any of the bike trail photos to enlarge)

OK, to be a little more specific this is the South Elgin Dam on the Fox River as seen from the Fox River Trail shortly after crossing the Fox River on State Street and heading north.



We got lucky here and rode on this section right while this freight train came blasting by!!! It is pretty awesome riding right alongside this extremely noisy freight train! And, by the way, this is an active train track and there are places to cross the tracks from the trail that are not fully automated crossings like you would usually see where an actual road crosses the tracks so you do need to stay alert when you are crossing the tracks.



Sure I love a nice quite and peaceful ride out in the woods and all... but the trains don't come by all that often and it can be an exciting change to the usual peace and quite...

NOTE:  The pictures in this section are still in order going north along the FRT, but I took these while heading south so they are looking back (south) at this point. I wanted to keep the photo pages all going in the same direction so I reversed the order of the photos in this section...

There are some really nice wooded and winding parts of the trail here... Dale has named this part of the trail "Hill Heaven" (in contract to the "Hill Hell" much further north on the Prairie Trail (north of Crystal lake, in the Stearns Woods area). This area is curvy and hilly but the hills are not all that steep or long and are pretty easy to ride up (and, of course, a lot of fun to ride down). The Stearns Woods part of the connecting Prairie Trail, on the other hand has some really steep hills that I usually end up walking my bike up.