This is part of the McHenry County Conservation District, 26 miles away from where we live, so not all that far. Wilma and I had a good time here. This trail map was extracted from a brochure found on their web site. They also had boxes for trail maps at both the horse parking trail head and the hiking trail head. I did not check the box at the horse parking area, but there actually were trail maps in the hiking trail head map box. There were numbered posts we encountered on the part of the hiking trail we were on. None on the horse trail. The trail marker numbers are not depicted on either the map I got off the web site or the one at the trail head. In any case, the trails were all well marked.
We did the whole horse trail and part of the hiking trail. I had planned to do most of the hiking trail but it was getting late and I was not sure exactly how long it would take or when the park actually closed, and did not want to get locked in. In retrospect, it probably would have added only about 15 minutes to our hike to catch most of the rest of the hiking trails instead of walking what we did twice to save a little time. Base Camp claims 7.5 miles. Seems about right.
The park seems in good repair. We only encountered two other people hiking - no horses. And the hikers we saw were coming back off the hiking trail after we were already back. We did see a few people fishing when we came in.
It is a nice place. Seems well maintained. We saw a deer. Lots of creek time for Wilma. The horse trail has three places you have to ford the creek. I did not have my waterproof boots so got a bit wet. No big deal. It was in the upper 60s and I was in no danger from wet feet.
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