We camped at Firefly Lake in the Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest. It is a smaller lake, crystal clear and surrounded by woods. It appeared to have a couple of resident loons.
Larry planned 3 bicycle routes for the 3 days we would be up here. Today's route will take us to Sayner, St Germain, Star Lake, Boulder Junction and back to Firefly Lake.
We began on the trail that connects Firefly Lake with Crystal Lake and then heads toward Sayner. The blacktop trails are very nice to ride.
The trail skirted around Sayner. It seems there are lakes around every corner up here.
We rode through an area that had many butterflies. I tried to take photos of them on flowers, but the best shot I got was when I went to get back on my bike.
Before St Germain there was a section of the trail with a steep decline to this reservoir area, and a very steep incline after it. There were signs asking riders to dismount and walk their bikes - since there was no one else around we rode it carefully.
We stopped at the visitor center at St Germain and met another family visiting from Appleton. We also got fresh ice water and a couple of chocolate chips cookies at the Subway before we left town.
En route to Star Lake we had a down pour, so got a bit wet, but just up the road from where we took shelter it appeared it had not rained at all.
Downtown Star Lake - a good spot to have our packed lunch. After lunch we headed out for the park to take a swim - it turned out it was only a stone throw down the road.
The swim was refreshing. Then we put our gear back on and headed on.
We rode Country Road K towards Boulder Junction. It is labelled a rustic road and it was so beautiful.
I believe this was called Lost Canoe Lake, The weather looked a bit stormy again behind us. We biked on to Boulder Junction.
If you have been there I am sure you have sat in this gigantic rocking chair.Now it is time for the reward part of the cycling trip - the ice cream cone. We asked around for the place to get a good cone and was told Mad Dog Jake's was the place to go.
It was at the other end of the downtown strip - but that is only a block or so.
It did not disappoint. Notice the chocolate dipped waffle cone - yummy!
We ate our cones outside and there was a very loud crap of thunder, but that was it.
The blacktop trail runs from Boulder Junction all the way to our camp ground - what a nice way to finish our ride. The trail runs alongside and through the Trout Lake Park also. Trout Lake is quite a large lake.
When we got back to the campground we did ride across to Crystal Lake and take a dip there, even though it looked like it might rain at any moment.
Today's route was 54 miles.
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