JustinCeez wrote on 11/13/17 at 3:41pm:


Which one are you talking about? Maybe assuming the one at the top of the service road.(if you are coming from the creek up the long gravel road, at the top of the road instead of going right to continue Prarie...go straight accross) Is this the one you are refering to?  If so I rode it 2 weeks ago and was not finished yet (the exit).  There are more off the prarie loop as well, very early stages.

I was out there today as well.  Where is the Prairie Loop extension you speak of?

Rode the new Prairie Loop Extension today & it was wonderful!  Can't wait for the other new section to open!

I rode three new sections but they were all pretty much parallel to Prarie. If you are heading CW on Praire, after you pass the bowl area which is on your right, you begin to exit the woods and head up the hill on the wide, dirt service road like trail. Just before you leave the wooded bowl area, there is a new trail entrance on your right. If you enter there, you will in effect be riding parallel to the dirt service type road.  If you look right while on this trail, there is a new bridge going in and no trail coming or going from it.  I am assuming this will be used to connect things up.  This trail is sweet, it runs through the woods and exits out on the gravel service road that you typically would never ride on doing praire. This gravel service road is on the opposite side of stumpy pond than the praire trail.  When you come out there, you go right and there is another entrance into the woods that goes up and reconnects with the praire loop at the service road/praire loop junction by the big field. It’s cool. But it’s kinda weird. Not sure how that will fit in. 

If I haven’t lost you yet, if you turn right at that junction, continuing to head CW on praire, in about 50 feet you re-enter the tree line and on your left there is another new trail. If you take that trail, it goes about 1/4 mile and dumps you out into the big field that is beside the big barn. To put this another way. When you come out of the trail, you are looking across a big field and dead ahead, like 200 yards across the field is the security shack at the Springfield Parkway entrance beside the strawberry fields. No clue how these 3 sections of new trail will fit in to an overall plan but I am sure it will somehow. 

Finally, these three sections can’t be the 2.5 mile praire extension that has been referenced. I read through the posts and I am going to try and find that entrance.