The bicycle riders guide to The Grand Illinois Trail
Ride gives you information to ride the course in segments (sections), or riding it all at once, thru-bike style. With complete GPS maps and detailed section information, kept current by its users, you'll have everything you need to make your Grand Illinois Trail Ride most enjoyable. How do you like to ride? See Riding Styles.
Chart of Loops

Map Homepages
Alt Map Homepages
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Ron Bolin of Homer Glen completed a Grand Illinois Trail Ride in 2013. He documented his experience, took some great pictures, and posted them here. Ron is a Grand Illinois Trail Ride Trailblazer.
Thanks Ron!
See Ron’s Profile here: http://www.gitride.com/trailblazer-profile-ron-bolin/
See Rons Trip Report Here: http://www.gitride.com/help/forum/general-group15/rider-hall-of-fame-forum84/2013-001-ron-bolin-thread35/
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The Grand Illinois Trail Ride is an athletic bicycle tourist venue in Northern Illinois, USA.
We are pleased to announce that we have completed a chart of loops that will allow an interested rider to chose which loop attempt would best suit their available time and ability, based upon terrain and […]
Pecatonica Prairie Path is not on the Grand Illinois Trail Ride. Yet.
The Pecatonica Prarie Path is an approximately 23 mile trail located between Freeport and Rockford. The plan requires a connection to the Jane Addams Trail. The completion date is not clear.
One continuous paved Trail from Rockford the The […]
GITride is bicyclist tech support on the Grand Illinois Trail? PRE LAUNCH: The site is beginning to behave as it should technically, and we are coming into peak season on the Grand Illinois Trail Ride. The Pre-launch preview is available for the large crowd of folks made up of teachers and students at all levels, […]
We’re pleased to announce that the website backbone has been reinforced. It’s stronger, faster. Able to make your experience here quicker and more gratifying.
If you were a visitor of GITride.com over the last few weeks, you wouldn’t have noticed anything different.
However, if you attempted to log in and actually use the collection […]
The Grand Illinois Trail Ride is a top notch USA athletic tourist venue in Northern Illinois. We were looking for a better way to keep trail information updated; both for those who use it, and those who maintain it. Trail Reports seemed to be the answer.
Trail reports come to the site from two […]
Revised: July 30, 2013
WE ARE IN BETA:
Most of the features are installed, live and ready for use.
Register now to participate in the beta testing process.
You can use the site, download information, post messages, & register.
Please feel free to use the site, post condition reports, enter your up-to-date travel information, post […]
YOU WILL STILL BE ABLE TO USE THE SITE. YOU MAY REGISTER, and EVEN POST PUBLIC MESSAGES. THE SYSTEM WILL BE VERY SLOW. PAGES MAY TAKE TWENTY SECONDS OR MORE TO APPEAR.
WE EXPECT THAT BY JULY 1st WE WILL BE IN THE POSITION TO DEVELOP A LAUNCH DATE.
FRIENDS OF THE SITE […]
WE ARE UPDATING,
IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A LOG OF THE 2006 BIKE RIDE PLEASE GO TO:
http://legacy.gitride.com
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# TRAIL REPORTS
For more information about posting, reading, and locating a GITride twitter condition report, SEE OUR GITride REPORTING Page
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