Ice Age Trail

The Ice Age and North Country Scenic Trails are popular hiking destinations in northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula.

For decades, the Ice Age Trail Alliance and its many volunteers have worked to build a 1,200-mile-long trail that highlights Wisconsin’s landscape formed by glacier retreat.Today, there are more than 600 miles of marked trail. But in between those segments, the trail detours onto the sides of roads.

The autumn leaves are falling fast, and winter is knocking at the door. But with temperatures expected in the upper 60s this weekend, October is extending its invitation to celebrate fall. Join WXPR’s Erin Gottsacker on the Ice Age Trail for this week’s Explore Up North.

During the month of October, hike, walk, run or backpack 41 miles of the Ice Age Trail and visit three of the trail communities to earn a hiking certificate and a limited-edition patch.

You may be planning to get outdoors this weekend, but you probably won’t be outside as much as Toby Clark. He’s been hiking the ice age trail since April,…