Many local trails travel through Fond du Lac County's varied landscape. Here are eight spots to check out while the weather is warm.

Mariners Trail, Point Beach State Forest, the Wisconsin Ice Age Trail and Woodland Dunes Nature Center make our list of great places to hike.

By 2000, the trail extended to Crystal Lake campground in the Northern Highland American Legion State Forest, making it 11 miles long. Smith noted that is one of her favorite stretches of the system.

Wisconsin has more than 15,000 lakes, 43,000 miles of rivers and 800 miles of Great Lake shorelines. Water trails help paddlers get to the best.

Trails are maintained by the Association of Sauk County Snowmobile Clubs and the club website has trail maps to view. The county has a trail hotline, 608-985-4766, to check trail status.

Yes, this new segment is only a 1.3-mile stretch out of a total 4,600 miles of trail. But when hundreds more stretches like this are completed it will be the longest contiguous hiking trail in the ...