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Stute Spring & Stute Springs Trail via Blue Loop is a 5.6-mile out-and-back in Kettle Moraine State Forest - Southern Unit near Eagle, WI. The route reaches Stute Spring. It climbs 288 ft and is mostly dirt. It scores 25/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.

Elevation

0 mi860 – 1,020 ft5.8 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 42.86890, -88.50364
Nearest town Eagle, WI

Directions

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Stute Spring & Stute Springs Trail via Blue Loop

5.6 mi · ▲ 288 ft · 2 hr 1 min

Elevation 861–1,020 ft

Out & Back · Kettle Moraine State Forest - Southern Unit

Trailhead: 42.86890, -88.50364

Weather Sep 21: sunrise 6:40 AM · sunset 6:57 PM

Toilets at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading N.
  2. 100 ftTurn right onto Moraine Ridge Trail, heading NE.
  3. 0.3 miTurn left, heading W.
  4. 0.5 miTurn left onto Ice Age Trail, heading SW.
  5. 0.3 miTurn right, heading NW.
  6. 400 ftBear left onto Blue Loop, heading SW.
  7. 0.7 miBear right onto Stute Springs Trail, heading W.
  8. 50 ftContinue straight onto Blue Loop, heading W.
  9. 350 ftTurn right onto Stute Springs Trail, heading W.
  10. 0.2 miTurn left onto Blue Loop, heading N.
  11. 0.1 miPass Stute Spring.
  12. 50 ftContinue straight onto Stute Springs Trail, heading SW.
  13. 0.4 miReach Stute Spring, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  14. 0.4 miContinue straight onto Blue Loop, heading NE.
  15. 0.1 miTurn right onto Stute Springs Trail, heading NE.
  16. 0.2 miTurn left onto Blue Loop, heading SE.
  17. 350 ftContinue straight onto Stute Springs Trail, heading SE.
  18. 50 ftBear left onto Blue Loop, heading S.
  19. 0.7 miBear right, heading NE.
  20. 400 ftTurn left, heading NE.
  21. 0.2 miContinue straight onto Ice Age Trail, heading E.
  22. 50 ftTurn right, heading NE.
  23. 0.5 miTurn right onto Moraine Ridge Trail, heading SE.
  24. 0.3 miTurn left, heading SW.
  25. 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.

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

Trail surface

100% dirt

Weather

Sunrise 6:40 AMSunset 6:57 PM

Good to know

  • Toilets at the trailhead
  • Parking lot at the trailhead

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