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Bowes Creek Woods Forest Preserve

Meadow Trail & Old Grove Trail

2 mi · ▲ 27 ft · 41 min

Meadow Trail & Old Grove Trail is a 2-mile out-and-back in Bowes Creek Woods Forest Preserve near Bowes Bend, IL. It is mostly level, with 27 ft of elevation gain, and mostly dirt. It scores 37/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.

Elevation

0 mi889 – 922 ft2.1 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Meadow Trail 42.00409, -88.41301
Nearest town Bowes Bend, IL
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Meadow Trail & Old Grove Trail

2 mi · ▲ 27 ft · 41 min

Elevation 888–922 ft

Out & Back · Bowes Creek Woods Forest Preserve

Trailhead: Meadow Trail · 42.00409, -88.41301

Weather Sep 20: sunrise 6:40 AM · sunset 6:56 PM

Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start on Meadow Trail, heading SE.
  2. 0.3 miBear left onto Willow Trail, heading W.
  3. 0.3 miTurn right onto Old Grove Trail, heading N.
  4. 0.4 miReach Meadow Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  5. 0.4 miTurn left onto Willow Trail, heading E.
  6. 0.3 miBear right onto Meadow Trail, heading SE.
  7. 0.3 miArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail map, photos and weather for this hike: www.ambleway.com/hikes/meadow-trail-out-back-7709

Trail surface

100% dirt

Weather

Sunrise 6:40 AMSunset 6:56 PM

Good to know

  • Parking lot at the trailhead

Hikes near Bowes Bend, Illinois