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Just fyi, I'd avoid the curve just south of the oak st beach. The waves wash up onto the curve and the water freezes creating a sheet of ice for a lot of the winter. That part hasn't gotten plowed either due to the curve and the slope. This may have change with the repaving but, it's probably better to detour and take the underpass over to the loop at the oak st. beach and then go back to the path around navy pier.
Just fyi, I'd avoid the curve just south of the oak st beach. The waves wash up onto the curve and the water freezes creating a sheet of ice for a lot of the winter. That part hasn't gotten plowed either due to the curve and the slope. This may have change with the repaving but, it's probably better to detour and take the underpass over to the loop at the oak st. beach and then go back to the path around navy pier.
That curve by the Oak street beach does get very bad in the wintertime. Last winter it was completely choked with thick Ice and was utterly un-passable. A thin un-even trail had been hammered out by runners, but you could not ride a bike through it. That little stretch becomes very treacherous indeed.
Last winter as I was walking my bike around the bend I saw two roadies with 23 cm tires plow through the mess hardly slowing down and was quite impressed. Still would not reccommend it. Also, when the ice floe is new and slick, don't even try to walk across it.
Otherwise, the trail from Montrose to Monroe is usually clear.
Reddog said:That curve by the Oak street beach does get very bad in the wintertime. Last winter it was completely choked with thick Ice and was utterly un-passable. A thin un-even trail had been hammered out by runners, but you could not ride a bike through it. That little stretch becomes very treacherous indeed.
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