Soldier's Full Ride

Dogs Leashed

E-Bikes Allowed

Features Drops/Jumps

This is a tour of the whole Soldier's Memorial Park trail system. It's got some of everything: thick woods, lots of turns, a few tech features - berms, bridges, and a drop off. You can pretty much open it up the whole way. It's the go-to ride in the area.

Parking free across street. Restrooms would be across lake at Soldier's Memorial park

The trail surface is mostly dirt but it can be full of leaves in fall. Lots of volunteers help keep the trail clean. Even then, it is a fairly rugged trail for the midwest.

The trail is marked with green, blue, black colored symbols with black being the hard trail. Both loops follow the same trail for a lot of it. The black loop is like an extension of the blue loop but with harder, more technical trail geared towards intermediate/advanced riders. Challenge yourself to get up all the climbs on the NW area on the blue and black loops.

The Green Loop is pretty flat and smooth with enough up and down to keep you flying and pedaling. The trail twists and turns pretty close to and between trees. The loop has very minimal roots in the path and just enough to challenge beginner riders. There are jumps and a drop along the way—all of them are optional paths for more experienced riders and all of the mandatory mounds (set up to jump) can be easily rolled.

The Black Loop gets into some raw, tight trees, sharp corners, and off-camber/sloped trail with a big steep climb. Then play on some wood bridges and more crazy climbs with more tight squeezes between trees. There are also some really good berms here too.

This trail was pretty unconnected until IU volunteered to clean it up and they had a mt bike race about 6yrs ago.