Milwaukee: John Muir White Loop
Skirt the edges of a boggy cauldron in Kettle Moraine State Forest as you loop 4 miles into terrain tilled by supersize glaciers thousands of years ago.
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Trail Facts
- Distance: 6.4
- Miles from city center: 47
Waypoints
JMW001
Location: 42.8199806213379, -88.6035537719726
Head SW and take hard R in 100 ft., bearing N
JMW002
Location: 42.8205490112305, -88.6046371459961
R @ 3-way to head N into low-slung scrub
JMW003
Location: 42.8223495483398, -88.6048202514648
L @ 3-way in open field
JMW004
Location: 42.8199806213379, -88.6090927124024
L @ 3-way, traveling over slight moraine formation
where hilly belts of connected ridges and mounds formed along glacier’s edge
JMW005
Location: 42.8170890808106, -88.6084671020508
R @ 3-way where land slips away quickly into kettle-formed bog. The depressions formed when buried blocks of ice melted and topsoil caved in
JMW006
Location: 42.8133506774902, -88.6100769042969
L @ 3-way heading E toward bog
JMW007
Location: 42.8134994506836, -88.6091766357422
Bear L; encounter a narrow section of trail that overlooks one of three leatherleaf bogs and twists through mixed hardwoods
JMW008
Location: 42.8036270141602, -88.6054992675781
Loop back N under corridor of pines
JMW009
Location: 42.8120079040527, -88.6039581298828
Return to shores of bog and loop ENE skirting edges of bowl
JMW010
Location: 42.816951751709, -88.6031723022461
R @ 3-way through stand of pines
JMW011
Location: 42.8184013366699, -88.6047286987305
R @ 3-way across open field back to parking lot