Chicago Lakefront Trail: Ardmore Ave. to 71st St. - Full Trail + Exploring - Round Trip - July 2022

This is what the trail looked like in July 2022.

Riding the Chicago Lakefront Trail from Mile Marker 0.0 at Ardmore Ave., Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, to the end of the trail at the South Shore Cultural Center on 71st St. ROUND TRIP
FULL TRAIL WITH EXPLORING

This video shows a more detailed look at the trail and us exploring some other places you will have access to with Ebikes. If you'd like to see a shorter video that shows only the trail itself with limited editing, limited stops, and no exploring click this link to see that video...
   • Chicago Lakefront Trail: Ardmore Ave....  

0:00 Intro
2:38 Shorter Ride Only Video Available
3:27 Ride Start
4:10 Where we parked at Foster Beach
6:12 A Stop at Belmont Harbor
7:18 Skyline by Chevron Sculpture
7:35 Riding on Belmont Harbor Southern Revetment
8:48 Riding on the Diversey Harbor Revetment
9:37 North Avenue Beach
10:19 Oak Street Beach
11:09 Heading to Navy Pier from the North
11:50 Exploring Navy Pier on Ebikes
12:41 Old Glory
15:02 Navy Pier Flyover
15:17 Lake View Park
16:49 Shedd Aquarium
17:51 McCormick Place
20:32 South Shore Cultural Center
20:39 Arrival at the end of the trail at 71st St.
22:03 Blues Brothers Movie Filming Location
23:09 Museum of Science & Industry
24:48 Promontory Point
25:39 41st Street Bridge
26:42 35th Street Bridge
27:43 Heading to Adler Planetarium
29:32 Buckingham Fountain from Ride 1
31:23 Buckingham Fountain from Ride 2
32:11 Heading to Museum Campus
33:49 Northerly Island
35:33 Not a Complete Loop
37:49 Heading North from Buckingham Fountain
38:22 Chicago Riverwalk
42:16 Arrival at the End of the Riverwalk
45:50 Showing Navy Pier Access from the South
46:27 Oak St. Beach
46:50 Theater on the Lake
48:31 Arrival at Ardmore Ave.
50:19 Outro

The AllTrails map links below were custom created by me based on the maps that the Chicago Park District has on their website. These maps follow the BIKE portion of the trail and does NOT use the pedestrian trail like the AllTrails map has...

Full Trail + showing some exploring you can do...
https://www.alltrails.com/explore/map...

Full Trail Only...
https://www.alltrails.com/explore/map...

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When I research new bike trails to ride I use the AllTrails app (love it!) for discovery and YouTube to see what the trail looks like. Many times, any questions I may have (What does the trail look like? How well taken care of is the trail? How wide is the trail? Does it look like a trail we can pull a kids trailer on? How does the new detour go? Are there many places to stop? Where does it tend to flood? How does this trail connect to that trail?) can be answered by a simple video like this. Unfortunately there are a lot of trails that I can’t find videos on or they are way out of date. Hopefully this video will help others who may want to quickly see a trail to decide if it’s a good fit for their ride style.