Trail Map of Ice Age Trail: Monches

Follow the Ice Age Trail through a beautiful hardwood forest, along the clear Oconomowoc River and over a bubbling brook

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Ice Age Trail: Monches
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Easy: 2.7 miles, 1-3 hours
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Overview: The Ice Age Trail travels through the hardwoods of the Carl Schurz forest, along the clear Oconomowoc River, and over a brook bubbling over tumbled boulders.

This complete and detailed guide covers the Monches segment of the Ice Age Trail and all it's access points, trailheads, parking, connecting trails, communities, parks, preserves, and facilities. This guide contains almost 10 points of interest for the trail, viewable via your browser at home, or on the fly trailside via your mobile phone.

The Ice Age Trail is a thousand-mile footpath highlighting the remnants left behind by glaciers during the last ice age over 12,000 years ago. Designated as a National Scenic Trail, the Ice Age trail follows the terminal moraine of the last glaciation throughout Wisconsin providing some of the world's best examples of glacial formations such as kettles, moraines, and drumlins.

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Tips: Water

There is no on-trail water.

Parking

Parking is available at either trailhead.

Camping

There is no on-trail camping.
Monches Trailhead
Parking
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Trails Junction
Junction
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Oconomowoc River
Junction
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Bridge
Junction
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Scenic brook
Viewpoint
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Funk Road
Junction
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Monches/Merton Trailhead Spur Trail
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Merton Segment
Junction
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Monches/Merton Trailhead
Parking
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Monches/Loew Lake Parking
Parking
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Ice Age Trail: Loew Lake
Junction
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