First of all, thank you for this website and all of the trail reports. It is so incredibly helpful to a new hiker like myself. My husband and I are brand new to hiking and were motivated to start due to our upcoming Italy trip. Last Saturday we went to the Old Sauk trail. The drive was absolutely gorgeous. We arrived at the trailhead at 10:30 and were the only car there. Note, the trailhead sign has been spray painted on and is hard to read, but the directions (3 miles from the stop sign) led us there easily. Upon entering the trail, we could not believe how gorgeous this trail was. The green of a rain forest and the location right next to the river was perfect. I could not imagine that we had ""discovered"" such a gorgeous hike. The 1st half of the trail is pretty clear, the 2nd half was more covered with leaves and twigs but still discernible. There were a couple of trees blown down across the trail. One I had to sit on (wet!) to swing over. The 6 miles was an easy walk and the motivation of the scenery and river were great. We crossed over the highway at the end of the trail and had lunch by the babbling brook because the ""lunch rock"" was occupied.
On our return back we passed many families and couples with dogs who got a later start than we did. It was just a gorgeous day and a great place for a novice hiker to begin. We leave for Italy next week so we'll be back on the trails upon our return in June. Happy hiking! I will include a couple of pictures here for you as well.
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