The Ice Age Trail in Wisconsin follows the terminal moraine left behind 12,000 years ago as the ice age ended and glaciers receded.
The hiking trail is still a work in progress, but nearly 700 miles of the Ice Age Trail is open for public use. There are over 100 completed segments that are joined together by routes that may take you out on quiet rural roads and highways and make it possible to hike the entire 1,200-mile trail across the state.
Where the trail runs through my town, much of it follows a paved bike path, but here are some photos taken on the section of trail as it leaves town.
There are many landscape features created by glaciers; drumlins, eskers, kettles, kames, bogs, streams and a multitude of lakes were left behind as the glacier receded and many of these features can be found along the Ice Age Trail.
There is an abundance of wildflowers, plants, berries and insects.
Hope you enjoyed this photo tour of a walk through a bit the natural area of southern Wisconsin
