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Ride with Leinie Featured in Wisconsin Bike Fed!
Read the Wisconsin Bike Fed Article on the history of the Ride with Leinie event! Learn how the event began and all the exciting things coming to this year’s ride on July 27th.
Conover-Phelps Trail Open for the Season
Spring clean-up and new directional sign installation have been completed on the Conover-Phelps Trail and the trail is now open to ride for the season. The images below feature Neal Adams performing clean-up by removing trees and installing new directional signs.
Ride with Leinie 2024 Returns to Conover!
On Saturday, July 27, 2024, GHTF will once again host the Ride with Leinie fundraiser bicycle event. This year, participants may choose from five different ride options. Dick Leinenkugel will lead off the 20.4-mile ride on the Conover-Phelps Trail and Dick’s Daughter Katie Leinenkugel will lead off the 10.4-mile trail ride. For those that prefer…
Great Headwaters Trails Donates to Towns of Conover and Phelps
On September 7, 2023, the Towns of Conover and Phelps received a donation from Great Headwaters Trails. The monies were part of the proceeds from the Ride with Leinie event held on the Conover-Phelps Bike Trail also known as the C-P Trail. $17,000 was raised from the event and $5,000 was given to each town.…
River Trail – A High-Value, Priority Project!
The River Trail will connect Eagle River to the 55-mile Heart of Vilas System, and extend the system by 10 miles. St. Germain will become a system hub and the new River Trail will, we predict, become one of the most popular parts of the whole system! At the place shown in the photo, the…
River Trail Executive Summary Findings
GHTF’s retired engineers did a study of several routing options to provide clarity to questions raised early in the summer of 2023 about the best route for the River Trail. Their findings confirmed that the route that had been proposed in 2018 was the best in all categories of study: providing safety to bike riders…
Grabbing the opportunity to make River Trail a reality
A good place to learn more about the River Trail project will be the Eagle River Council meeting at 6 p.m. on June 13.
2023: Two great trails! Two great bike events!
For the second year, GHT is proud to be putting on two great organized rides: Ride with Leinie and SepTimber Ride. Both will help us do more to develop and enhance trails in eastern Vilas County. Our mid-summer ride, Ride with Leinie on July 29, features special trail ride and road ride options through some…
Torch Lake Bike Trail Study
At Torch Lake the county has a park with playground, a beach, and a campground. It’s all about 2 miles south of Conover on the west side of STH 45. Last year, GHT enlisted a team of senior engineering students from UW-Platteville to study a possible bike trail down to Torch Lake from the west…