The Des Plaines River Trail Photos
Old School Trail

We started this ride in Half Day heading north but I didn't start the photos until we got to the Old School Preserve near Libertyville. The photo above is from a side trip that we took on the Old School Trail where it intersects the Des Plaines River Trail (DPRT)  just south of  Route 176.

This part of the trail is where it goes through the Old School Forest Preserve and winds out to and around a small lake or pond next to the expressway (Interstate 94). This is a very nice side trip if you are on this part of the Des Plaines River Trail.

The photo above is the lake that the bike path goes around. The expressway is a little ways off and to the right. You can continue on this bike path (the Old School Trail at this point) around the eastern side of the Old School Forest Preserve and back to the DPRT.

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The photo above is a HDR (High Dynamic Range) picture of the Old School Preserve lake, contributed by Dale Kiffel, taken from the bike path at the southern end of the lake.

We went through a nice wooded area on our way back to the DPRT after we rode around the lake in the Old School Preserve. This was later in the day and I really liked the way the sunshine made it's way through the trees at this time of day.

I actually took the photo above with my iPhone using the panorama setting. As I mentioned above, I liked the way the sun shined through the trees here and the panoramic setting in my phone made it easy to capture a wider image although, unfortunately, I did get some sun flare in the photo.

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The HDR photo above shows where the DRPT winds through an open prairie. You go beck into the woods on both sides of this open stretch.

The trail is much more wooded (and shady on those hot summer days) in this area which is somewhere in MacArthur Woods just before the Route 60 underpass.