Green Bay and Robert McClory Trail Photos
through Wilmette and Kenilworth

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

This is the hill and turn where you get on (or off) the actual Green Bay Trail. This is actually a very sharp turn so you really need to be careful here. If you are heading south on the GBT, you go out on to some residential side streets and weave through a small section of the neighborhood before connecting with the actual trail again.

This is just a short detour (and I don't know why there is this break in the trail) so if you don't get back on the the regular trail again about a block or so after passing the Joseph Sears School (shown below) then you have probably gone too far.

This is the Joseph Sears school that you pass by on the neighborhood section of the GBT. This is on Abbottsford Road which heads south-east (when you are taking the GBT south). You will want to go right (or primarily west) at the next street, which is Melrose Ave to get back on the main trail again.

Passing through Townley Field on the southern end of the trail. This is the Kenilworth leg of the Greenbay Trail.

Just south of Townley Field you connect to this narrow fenced part of the Green Bay Trail (with a chain link fence on one site and the stockade fence on the other side).

The GBT passing through Shorewood Park in the Wilmette/Kenilworth part of the trail. Just south of Shorewood Park you cross Forest Ave and the Wilmette Fire Dept.

This is the Bike Racks at the Wilmette Metra Train station at the southern end of the Green Bay Trail. Although the trail continues a little further through Wilmette this is pretty much the southern end of the GBT (just south of Lake Street).

It is actually not hard to continue east from here, through the neighborhoods, to get out to Lake Michigan. This is close to Gillson Park and beach and the Baha'i Temple. You can then continue on the Evanston Lakefront Trails south all the way to Chicago if you like.

It's actually incredible how many bike trails connect to each other and how far you can ride with some planning and enough time, patience and endurance!