Thorn Creek Trail Photos
Sauk Trail Woods to Old Plank Road Trail

This bridge is on the Thorn Creek Trail (TCT) in Sauk Trail Woods at the southwest end of the Thorn Creek Trail.

The Thorn Creek Trail is very wooded, curvy and a little hilly in this section. The trail goes in a loop here around the Sauk Trail Lake.

OK, here is something that you don't see everyday ~ at least I don't and have never seen before. It's a rooster in the woods. We stopped for something here, and as I mentioned it is very wooded here, and I saw some movement in the woods. I just barely had time to grab my camera and I managed to get a photo of this guy before he ran off.

I believe that the photo above is as we were coming out of the Sauk Trail Woods loop oat the southwest end of the Thorn Creek Trail.

The photo above show one of the tunnels on the TCT. This is just south of where the trail connects to the Old Plank Road Trail. I don't like when I see graffiti along trail especially if it is gang graffiti. I was pretty comfortable on most of the trail though.

This is a fairly new section of the Old Plank Road Trail (OPRT) that now connects to the Thorn Creek Trail. They were just completing this part of the trail when we rode the OPRT in October of 2015.

If you want to take a long ride on all paved trails, I believe that you could ride over 65 miles ~ round trip ~ on these 2 trails.

Yes, they even have Cubs fans this far south! OK, just kidding the recumbent rider with the Cubs hat is Dale who we imported from the north. :-) BTW: this ride was just before the Cubs won the World Series for the first time in over 100 years!

Back on the Thorn Creek Trail again. Here's another one of the tunnels that the TCT goes through. No graffiti on this one.