Illinois trails · Lakefront Trail
Lakefront Trail
A 8.1-mile loop in Illinois, with 25 ft of climbing. Reaches Fiftyninth Street Beach and other beach/lake destinations.
Length
8.1 mi
Elevation gain
25 ft
Difficulty
Easy
Max grade
6%
Steepest mile
+25 ft
Shape
loop
Surface
Concrete
Bikes
yes
Horses
no
Elevation profile
Essentially flat — no sustained climb anywhere along its 13.5 miles.
3-D terrain
USGS 3DEP ELEVATION × ESRI WORLD IMAGERY · VERTICAL ×1.5
Reaches
- Fiftyninth Street Beach (beach)
- Sixty-seventh Street Beach (beach)
- Thirty-first Street Beach (beach)
- Forty-Ninth Street Beach (beach)
- Fifty-Seventh Street Beach (beach)
- Jackson Park Beach (beach)
- South Lagoon (lake)
Daylight at the trailhead
On August 31, 2026 — the day this page was generated — first light reaches this trailhead at 5:46 a.m., the sun rises at 6:14 a.m. and sets at 7:25 p.m., and the last usable light fades about 7:54 p.m. (CDT) — 13 h 11 min of daylight. At about 2.7 mph plus 30 minutes per 1,000 feet of climbing, the 8.1-mile route takes roughly 3 h 02 min, so leaving the trailhead at sunrise puts you back around 9:16 a.m. — 10 h 09 min before sunset.
Nearby trails
- Brown Unpaved Trail — 14.9 mi
- Yellow Unpaved Trail — 16.1 mi
- Tan Unpaved Trail — 17.5 mi
- Tan Single Track Trail — 18.0 mi