Des Plaines River Trail
Mile 5 Marker South to Great America

I believe that this is just past the Mile 5 marker. Although this part of the trail is much more open than the trail is further south, there are some patches of woods that you pass through (as in the photo above) also.

The Mile 7 marker and another more wooded area. One of the techniques that I liked to use back in the old days (I am updating this caption after the fact) was to try to take a lot of the photos at the various mile markers along the way and include the mile marker sign along with the scenery at that place on the trail.

A bridge off in the distance. As I mentioned on the previous photo page for this bike trail photo tour, this was one of the original bike trails that I starting photographing and the quality is poor compared to my newer photo pages (sorry about that) and I do not have the larger photo version links that I do in the newer pages.

Some of the more typical wooded scenery just past the 7 mile mark. Another thing that I used to do more often was take the photos while I was riding. It looks like this was the case on the photo above.

One of the typical highway underpasses... It doesn't look like much, but it sure is nice not to have to stop! Actually the underpasses that go under the highways that the DPRT crosses is one of the best features of this trail (in Lake County). You don't have to stop to cross roads and if you have kids, crossing a lot of major highways is just one less thing to have to worry about.

If you take this bike trail much farther south (the Cook County section) you don't have this benefit as much and have some difficult highway crossings.

This is the Great America theme park in the background (may not be visible in this photo though). I believe that this is just south of Gurnee Woods Forest Preserve.