Trail Conditions: Early Season
Snow Cover: 0-5
Date of Report: February 3, 2025
Area Report:
We received some snow overnight Sunday into Monday morning. Clubs will be out today assessing the snow and likely panning some trails. This is the first week all winter that we have multiple days forecasted for possible snow, so keep your fingers crossed and we will update conditions as soon as we hear from our trail captains.
⚠️LCO – TRAIL 31 CLOSED Ice heave across whole lake from west side of Chicago Bay to the Whitefish Creek/Golden Shores area. ⚠️
***PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STAY ON THE TRAIL AS THERE ARE MANY HEAVES AND MORE CAN FORM AT ANYTIME! DRIVE WITH CAUTION AND AT SAFE SPEEDS. WE HAVE NOTED EXISTING HEAVES WE KNOW ABOUT BUT THIS WARNING APPLIES FOR ALL LAKES. CRUCIAL FOR YOUR SAFETY!!
Just to recap the heaves reported:
⚠️Nelson Lake – Hard Rock Cr to main Lake. Is not marked, club will monitor it this week.
⚠️Round Lake – across from Busse to Linden boat launch. Does run across the trail and there are caution signs at the heave near the marked trail area.
⚠️Long Lake – Little Bear to Boy Scout land. Is marked
⚠️ Chippewa Flowage – Sisko’s Pine Point Resort by landing. They have stakes warning ⚠️ Second heave reported going south in narrows towards Cranberry Lake on east side of Flowage. Not staked, will check it this week
⚠️Grindstone – in front of Williams Bay. Not staked
⚠️Lake Namakagon- between Garden Lake & Namakagon, just off of Duck Point