This is a 21.5-mile hard packed crushed stone trail with endpoints at Sparta and La Crosse. Riding this trail you will see farmland, bottom land woods and somewhat degraded prairie along with river marsh and wetlands. There is a possibility of seeing a wide variety of wildlife, we saw an otter!

This trail now connects with the Great River Trail; the connection opened late fall '97. The view on the left is of a trailside golf course near La Crosse.