Green Circle Trailhead — Attraction in Stevens Point

This is definitely a 5-star trail for beauty. It travels through lots of forest and along the Plover and Wisconsin Rivers. It is also well maintained. HOWEVER, there are a few things to note. You cannot race through this trail. There are lots of tight, blind turns. If you go too fast, you could hit a hiker or another biker. There are a few short segments that are very narrow or that travel through a less sightly area, but these are minimal.

The East portion of the trail is very clearly marked and easy to follow. However, the west side seems to be missing a sign or two or the signage is not intuitively placed. If you start on the east trail, when you get to the west side loop, there is a sign to turn right for the west side loop green circle trail but no sign indicating where the left turn leads. We headed right but found out miles later that was incorrect. Another confusing spot is after the W Clark Street bridge at the intersection of Water and W Clark Streets (in front of the Chase Bank). There is no signage. Instead, there are small, worn arrows on the road, which we missed. We again turned in the wrong direction (here, you should cross the street, turn left and then pretty quickly turn right back into the trail). And we weren't alone. We saw at least 3 other riders stopped on the side of the road studying their tail map. Both mistakes added 5 miles to our ride.

If you get caught at the train crossing on Park Street, trains can stop for 15 minutes or longer. We were fortunate to meet a local resident at this spot who led us to an underpass several blocks over on Church Street.

Overall, we loved this trail and will definitely return.

One last note--Make sure you don't bike this trail on a date with a large organized walk. We were there on the date of Walk Wisconsin, and an estimated 1,000 walkers were on the trail. Many blocked the entire trail and didn't want to move back to their side. This became dangerous at those tight, blind turns-- even at very slow speeds. When the trail went along a road, they blocked the entire lane. The trail probably should have been closed to...

I traveled the trail on an e-bike going about 9-10 mph due to the curves and blind spots and walkers and other bikers on the trail. The trail was very curvy and scenic. 90% of trail on limestone bike paths and bridges and 10% on connecting quiet roads. There was one very busy intersection to cross otherwise the other crossing areas were easy to check and pass right through. There were a few very dangerous areas of the trail where the trail was so narrow that only one bike could be on the path and the blind curves were a bit scary mostly due to the speedsters on regular bikes who could have really hurt a walker or another biker due to their reckless speed. I’m pretty sure signs said 12 mph max. Overall the trail was beautiful and somewhat safe. Lakes, rivers, swamps, savannahs, parks, and critters made this path...

Amazing trail. Stevens Point has reason to be proud of this. I still think its a bit odd they chant "green circle trail! green circle trail!" at HS football games and such but it is legit awesome so I'd probably chant it too. 28ish miles. You can't bike that fast as its twisty turny and sorta popular so fairish number of other folks around but its a great...