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Definitely check out Blowing Springs loop, its only 3 miles and really fun.

 

I’m going down this weekend for four days and its supposed to rain on Saturday, what trails drain the best and/or are okay to ride when wet? Hobbs? Lake Leatherwood? Upper Buffalo?

 

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I agree that Raceway is gaining steam. It has a good amount of elevation change, given that it’s located in Illinois.

 

Palos has a good variety of trails, and they just put in a few big berms on one of the trails that make that section really fun. It’s probably my favorite in the area, just because you can go a few times a week and change up your route every time. They just won a good chunk of change from Michelob Ultra to improve the trails too, and that’s going to be awesome to see what can get done.

I really liked Kickapoo but it being one directional and one big loop is kind of a downside. It’s worth it to drive the 2.5 hours to it but I’m okay with it not being my home trail. That said, the trail crew does a great job maintaining it, and it has a nice amount of variety in the relatively small amount of land it has.

Imagination Glen in Portage IN is worth the hour drive from Chicago, pretty fun trail system.

I haven’t hit Rock Cut, Beulah, or any of the Peoria trails yet, but plan to this year. I know Beulah has had some really good work put in to improve what they have.

Every time I’m out by my parents house I try to ride at Lake Le-Aqua-Na, and that place has a TON of potential to be a BIG TIME destination, but I don’t know if there would be any area support to get solid singletrack made. I just don’t think a real mountain bike community exists there, but I would love to be proven wrong and would gladly help in getting something going. Every time I go there, it’s basically empty, it could really benefit more MTB traffic.  If anyone has any more info on that, don’t hesitate to contact me.

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