Mar 252008
The first time I rode southwest from Niles, Michigan along Black Hawk’s old trail, was in 1997 or 1998. I had sampled some of the Sauk Trail in Michigan (US-12) and found the road in poor repair — not pleasant to ride on in many places. Much of it has since been resurfaced, and is much better to ride on now. But back then, I was glad to find that here was a piece of Black Hawk’s old road that was such a pleasant place to ride — there wasn’t a lot of traffic to disturb thoughts of how it might have been back in the 1820s.
It had been an idyllic ride, so it was a bit of a shock to all of a sudden come across a Chicago commuter train track at Hudson Lake. Talk about a quick jolt back to the 20th century.
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