Open House for Skokie Valley Bike Trail Plan

Please attend this public open house to comment on the Skokie Valley Bike Trail Plan.

A project to provide 4.5 miles of new multi-use trail is back on track, more than a decade after the idea of extending the Skokie Valley Trail from Lake County through Northfield, Wilmette, Glenview and Skokie was first proposed. When completed, the Skokie Valley Trail would ultimately provide direct bicycle path connectivity from Lake County to Chicago.

Currently, the nearly 10-mile-long existing asphalt trail runs from Lake Bluff south to Dundee Road in Northbrook, mostly paralleling discontinued train tracks. It picks up again in Skokie, where for two miles it parallels the CTA Yellow line, providing easy access to both the Dempster-Skokie and Oakton-Skokie stations.

The proposed project would fill in most of the gap, with construction of a 10-foot-wide, hot-mix asphalt shared-used path connecting with Voltz Road in Northbrook on the north and Old Orchard Road in Skokie on the south.

It would be built by the Villages of Glenview, Wilmette, Northfield and Skokie, which joined together in March 2018 to secure an $188,000 “Invest in Cook County” grant that helped fund an engineering study for the trail segment.