400 Trail

Being Wisconsin has lots of bike trails, we decided this vacation we would explore a few.  One of the bike trails near Devil's Lake (well sort of if you consider almost an hour's drive away as close) is the 400 Trail.  It is named for the train that traveled 400 miles from Chicago to Minneapolis in 400 minutes including all the stops.  Back in the day that would have been "bookin' it".  The trail was limestone packed which had more resistance than riding on asphalt.  Needless to say, we didn't get as far as we would have liked to have traveled, but by day's end, we had biked 22 miles out and back.

We started in Reedsburg with the intention on riding to Wonewoc 16 miles away.  It is a trail that follows along the Baraboo River that we rode along side in the city of Baraboo.



We passed cow pastures, and yes, the cows were mooing at us!





In Lavalle which was 7 miles into the ride, they had a Veteran's Memorial next to the trail.



They had several sandstone bluffs.



As we were continuing along, we contemplated whether to push to the 16 mile mark before returning, or just turn around.



We decided 11 miles was far enough and decided to head back to the trailhead in Reedsburg!
I was disappointed, but relieved... especially when we got back and I was pooped.  I told Clif, "I am grateful you know me so well because if we had gone to Wonewoc, you would have had to ride back, get the truck and pick me up."

As it was, after we loaded the bikes we headed out to Wonewoc just to see what the small town was all about.  We were glad we didn't ride out there because to us in our opinion, the town was a bust.