Ice Age Trail: Monches is a 3.6 mile moderately trafficked point-to-point trail located near Hartland, Wisconsin that features a river and is good for all skill levels. The trail offers a number of activity options and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail.
dog friendly
kid friendly
backpacking
birding
camping
hiking
nature trips
trail running
walking
forest
river
views
wild flowers
wildlife
bugs
muddy
Follow the Ice Age Trail through a beautiful hardwood forest, along the clear Oconomowoc River and over a bubbling brook The Ice Age Trail travels through the hardwoods of the Carl Schurz forest, along the clear Oconomowoc River, and over a brook bubbling over tumbled boulders. This complete and detailed route covers the Monches segment of the Ice Age Trail and all it's access points, trailheads, parking, connecting trails, communities, parks, preserves, and facilities. This guide contains almost 10 points of interest for the trail, viewable via your browser at home, or on the fly trailside via your mobile phone. The Ice Age Trail is a thousand-mile footpath highlighting the remnants left behind by glaciers during the last ice age over 12,000 years ago. Designated as a National Scenic Trail, the Ice Age trail follows the terminal moraine of the last glaciation throughout Wisconsin providing some of the world's best examples of glacial formations such as kettles, moraines, and drumlins.
One of our favorite ice age trail segments. Bugs are no problem now, Sept. 18, and not much rain recently.
Nice trail which crosses a river. The trail was very buggy. Even with lots of bug spray, it was miserable. Will go back in the fall and try to walk further without bugs. There were no others on the trail and it was peaceful.
Beautiful.