Ice Age Trail (Chippewa Moraine segment)

In April 2026 I travelled to N. Wisconsin and checked into an airbnb for a week ("Lucy's Loft") in the small town of Bloomer, north of Chippewa Falls. I spent 5 days hiking sections of the Ice Age Trail (Chippewa Moraine segment and Harwood Lakes segment) in addition to other trails that start from the Ice Age Center. I spent one day resting and the other day indoors because of heavy rain. I had hiked another section of the Ice Age Trail (in the Kettle Moraine State Forest in SE Wisconsin) but this experience was very different. There were many kettle lakes formed when huge chunks of ice broke off from the retreating ice of the last ice age (the Wisconsin glaciation) and as I hiked the trails I passed one lovely lake after another -- over 25 different lakes in all. The trails were lovely and I had them almost all to myself as I encountered very few other hikers.

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