Question by Dances with Labradors: Are there any decent places for serious hiking in the Chicago area?
I’ve lived in the Chicago area for 20 years and haven’t yet found any decent places for serious hiking, and it is really depressing me. Here are the criteria I want to meet.
Within about 200 miles of where I live (northern suburbs of Chicago).
Long enough for an all-day hike.
Doesn’t cross roads or run along roads.
Not crowded (rules out all the nearby state parks).
Not surrounded by housing developments.
No noise from cars, trucks, motorcycles, leaf blowers, airplanes, factories, boom-boxes, et cetera.
Fairly pristine area.
Interesting terrain, scenery, or biological features.
If you can recommend such a place, you will have my undying gratitude.
Dusie, Thanks for the information. I have been to Kettle Morraine. It comes closer than any other place I have found to what I’m looking for, but it has too many roads crisscrossing it for my taste. I looked up Lake Kegonsa. It looks awfully tiny. Kind of a glorified picnic ground. Not what I had in mind at all. But thanks for trying.
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Answer by Dusie
Kettle Moraine State Park or Lake Kegonsa State Park (Both in southeast Wisconsin)
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