Blogs from Elroy-Sparta State Trail, Wisconsin, United States, North America

Hey everyone! We are very excited that we will be able to share our travel stories as we backpack through Europe. Although it may not be a daily occurance we hope to send small updates from every city we visit. As of Sunday we have officially bought our plane tickets. We fly out of MSP on June 6th and arrive back at MSP on June 20th. We had dinner with Andy & Steph (the Europe Guru's) last night and they gave us a lot of great advice pertaining to our different destinations! Right now we are planning on spending 3 days in Rome, with one day trip to Pompei, 1.5 days in a small town in Tuscany known as Siena, 1.5 days in Venice, 2.5 days in Munich, with a day trip to Dachau, and ending ... read more

Bicycling capital of AmericaMaureen Kelly/Robert Tait The Elroy-Sparta Wisconsin State Trail was the first “rails to trails” established in the country. The trail is 32 miles in length on the abandoned Chicago-Northwestern Railroad bed, it passes through three rock tunnels. In Wisconsin trail passes are required for bikers 16 years of age or older. The cost is $4.00 per day or $15.00 for the season. We camped at the Tunnel Trail Campground right on the trail. Since it is Sunday, we took advantage of the Wilton Lions Club Sunday morning pancake breakfast. We biked north to Wilton (app. 5 miles) had breakfast with the riders and campers. Then returned south to Elroy (app. 12 miles). Our total for today was 33 miles because of the return ride. We returned to the campground packed up and drove ... read more