The Jane Addams Bike Trail Photos
From Freeport Heading North

Here is where a view of the Jane Addams Bike Trail as we started our trip just past the trail head at the southern end of the trail. There is a parking area at the southern end of the trail off of Fairview Road just south or Route 20 and north of Freeport, Illinois.

My friend , Dale on his Tour Easy recumbent, passing by some rocky scenery as we started our trip. The Tour Easy recumbent that he rides is a Long Wheel Base (LWB) recumbent (with the pedals behind the front wheel).

Dale had previously ridden a Bacchetta Short Wheel Base (SWB) recumbent (which has the pedals below the front wheel). I have ridden both of these bikes on different trails and they are really comfortable on long rides. I personally I like the LWB model better. It just seems a little more stable to me.

Passing by some of the shallower rock wall passages (sorry I took this photo while riding (as I often do) and it's a little blurry). One of my favorite things about this bike trail are the parts where you have rock walls on both side and feel like you are riding through a rocky, green valley.

This is near Cedarville and the sign is for the "Cedarville Snow Club". It looks like this is a big snowmobile area in the winter to me. You don't actually ride through the town Cedarville on the trail since it is a few miles east of the trail.

OK, it looks kind of junky, but I had to get a photo of this old house, that is in bad need of repair, along the trail to capture some the feel of the ride in this area.

Here's a little resting area and map of the trail. This is the map that I included on the main Jane Addams Trail page.

One of the many wooden bridges along the trail. This is actually one of the longer bridges and I believe this one is just before you cross Cedarville Road (heading north).

A glimpse of one of the wandering streams than you pass by or pass over.

This is as we come into the steeper rock wall area.