Trail Conditions

Near Madison

BlackHawk Ski Area (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
February 20 2025	Excellent	Skate and Classic	M. Young
🔗	Pristine!! Best the trails have been all season and almost untouched at 1 pm today. Skate deck was fantastic. Double set of tracks looked great. Hardly anyone skiing though…
February 16 2025	Excellent	Skate	Finn
🔗	Inch of powder on groomed surface. Didn't see tracks, but some appeared skied in.
February 14 2025	Excellent	Skate and Classic	M. Young
🔗	Snowmaking loop (Siberian Hwy) was excellent. New snow had firmed up since yesterday. 1.6K per lap. Looks like other trails have been rolled, but not groomed. More snow coming down as I ended at 4:45 pm. Thank you Blackhawk groomers.

Blue Mound SP (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
February 17 2025	Fair	Classic	Ryan P
🔗	Classic tracks were in good shape without many sticks or ground poking through. Be careful out there though! There are some uneven downhills that should be skied cautiously and a big patch of ice right after a blind downhill corner. That first patch of ice could really use a warning sign so people can slow down before the blind turn.
February 16 2025	Good	Classic	Kyle Richard
🔗	Another couples of inches of snow this morning helped to cover the thinner areas. It was still coming down when I left. Some of the tracks were completely snowed/drifted in. The icy/slushy patches still suck, though I'm hoping the upcoming cold snap will at least freeze up the wet spots.
February 15 2025	Fair	Classic	DarylH
🔗	Mostly good on outer loop, but a couple short wet spots early on, and a few small thin spots along the way.
February 15 2025	Fair	Skate	Blue Mound State Park Staff
🔗	Groomed and tracked Feb. 15th and in fair to good condition. The snow base is very thin with about 1" under the track causing some debris to show occasionally. A few ice sheets have formed as well on Minix and Willow Spring trails. Campground was groomed for skate skiing.

CXC Outdoor Rec Center (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
February 21 2025	Good	Skate	Dirk Lacker
🔗	Golf course trails holding up well as of 1pm. Thin spots getting thinner, still many excellent stretches. Thank you Chip for all of the quality grooming and making your reports
February 21 2025	Good	Skate	Chip
🔗	Groomed for skating on most of the golf course and the CXC loops.
February 20 2025	Good	Skate	Chip
🔗	Groomed for skating this morning.
February 20 2025	Good	Skate	Chip
🔗	Groomed for skating this morning.
February 19 2025	Good	Skate	Chip
🔗	Groomed just the skating today on most of the golf course and CXC loops. Classic tracks looked good from what I could see but are probably icy. Skating looked good in most places, I probably dug up some.dirt since it's hard to see the trail in the dark.
February 18 2025	Good	Classic	Dirk Lacker
🔗	-5 degree temperature prompted a day of striding. Tracks were 98% solid with the occasional dirty spot. One could of course hop out on the skating deck, which was excellent, when required. Kick was as expected perfect. Best natural snow diagonal skiing of the season in southern Wisconsin. Hats off to groomers, fantastic effort. Thanks
February 18 2025	Good	Skate and Classic	Chip
🔗	Fair to good conditions. Groomed the man-made snow loops for skating. Groomed most of the golf course and added classic tracks.
February 17 2025	Good	Skate	Dirk Lacker
🔗	Trail really firmed up and leveled out. New snow filled in nicely making cart path and gravel cautions largely a thing of the past. Cold dry friction makes glide hard to come but, but overall best natural snow skating of the season in our area. Nice job grooming crew.
February 17 2025	Good	Skate and Classic	Chip
🔗	Lots of drifting. Groomed skating and added some new classic tracks. Some areas are pretty light on snow but overall should be good to excellent.
February 16 2025	Good	Skate	Finn
🔗	Snowmaking including field loop in excellent shape. Tracks looked good too. PV - BH is skiable. Good/fair. Coverage a little better than expected. If groomed this evening or early tomorrow, probably will be pretty good.
February 15 2025	Good	Skate and Classic	Yuriy
🔗	The snowmaking trail was groomed with a snow-cat for skating and classic around 10:30 pm on Saturday. It should be in excellent condition in the morning. Trails on the golf course were groomed for skating and classic on Saturday evening using a snowmobile and pull-behind groomer. Conditions are fair to good. Other trails were rolled earlier on Saturday around 4 pm and are in fair condition for skating, with no classic tracks set.
February 15 2025	Excellent	Classic	Brian Parks
🔗	Stayed on the manmade loop because it is tracked. Not so for the golf course. Soft and a tad slow because of that. But very comfortable skiing. It will get faster over the coming days. But the temps are gonna drop quite a bit. Heia! Heia!
February 15 2025	Excellent	Skate	Dan D
🔗	Great job for the grooming crew making the golf Coarse skiable. First few laps were great although a bit slow and soft. After that base got pretty thin. Groomers might want to consider grooming the bypass which you normally do on the west end of the coarse so that if you have the option to avoid big uphiil and downhill that end which started showing some bare spot and twigs.
February 15 2025	Good	Skate and Classic	Yuriy Gusev
🔗	The snowmaking loop and trail on the golf course were packed with a snowcat around midnight. Trails should be flat and firm in the morning and enjoyable to ski on. Classic tracks will be set on the snowmaking loop only. Excellent conditions. Tomorrow morning, we will assess the golf course trail and decide on the best way to set a classic track. Trails in the woods and at the lower farm field are not groomed yet. We will let the snow settle a little on those trails and groom them with the roller first.
February 14 2025	Good	Skate	Chip
🔗	Groomed mostly for skating. Man-made snow loops are good, other trails and golf course are just fair.

Elver Park (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
February 20 2025	Good	Skate	Tony H.
🔗	Machine grooming has kept the trails firm & fun, but turned some areas into a dirt slalom challenge. Of course we need more snow, though forecast makes that unlikely. A team of volunteers could also do some shoveling to cover thin spots/groomer skid marks. Future MadNorSki-coordinated project in years to come? Thanks for the wonderful, all too short season, and good luck Birkebeiners!
February 20 2025	Excellent	Skate	David P.
🔗	Thank you MadNorski grooming team. Well, excellent for the amount and quality of snow received. Definitely some dirt and grass poking through on some uphills and other sections, but mostly avoidable. Great skiing.
February 20 2025	Fair	Skate and Classic	MadNorSki Groom Crew
🔗	The skate deck got a refresh this morning. The west trail have good coverage. Climbs to the east trails, are very thin and dirty but coverage is ok once you’re up there. Tracks are in good shape so I left them alone. Come test your glide wax on some cold snow before the big dance.
February 18 2025	Good	Skate	Lorin Weiler
🔗	Trails on the east side were in very good shape considering the snow cover. Fairly firm and fast. Didn't make it over to the west side. Tracks for classic skiing looked really good as well.
February 18 2025	Good	Skate and Classic	Dick Madnorski Grooming Crew
🔗	Did not refresh tracks, groomed all skate deck east & west trails
February 15 2025	Good	Skate and Classic	Dick steinle, Madnorski Grooming Crew
🔗	Snow is still very light not much moisture in snow. We rolled & groomed and set track, track is soft & shallow groomed 7-1:00 Thank you Willi for helping.

Governor Nelson SP (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
February 21 2025	Good	Classic	Tim
🔗	Since the previous report there are now trax, thanx to enough previous skiers, that makes it easy and a quick glide.
February 20 2025	Fair	Classic	RJ
🔗	Skied late afternoon 2/20 classic. Some bare spots, a rock poking through in the middle of one of the tree areas up on the hill, tracks are there from skiers, but washed out in quite a few areas. There is some debris in various areas. With warm temps coming the bare spots in the open sun will get worse.
February 15 2025	Fair	Classic	Sara
🔗	No grooming as of 1:30 saturday. Plenty of snow but kind of slow going.

Kegonsa SP (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
February 16 2025	Fair	Skate and Classic	Roger A Goppelt
🔗	Giod for classic but skate teack had snow but not rolled and vwry veey skow.if you go I sugfest classic sjis only

Lodi Golf Course (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
February 21 2025	Good	Skate and Classic	Dale Fanney
🔗	Tracks are very good with a couple of thin spots under trees. Skate deck is perfect- snow is very dry and powdery-

McCarthy Park (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
February 21 2025	Good	Skate and Classic	McCarthy Park Groomers
🔗	McCarthy Park is still skiable, hope to have it open for Saturday & Sunday. Most likely when temps hit 32deg the trails will be done very quickly. We are shoveling in some dirt spots or grooming around them. The one problem area is the climb by the sledding hill is near grass on the top of the hill. Classic tracks are still in place, many grass spots so use caution and jump out of the tracks when needed. Dane co burned a few wood piles damaging the snow but we bridged with some shoveled snow.
February 17 2025	Good	Skate	Sarah Guillot
🔗	Quite good snow coverage- overall grading good/fair. The kids/front loop was practically pristine- could do A skis if you just stayed there, for example if you wanted to do some quick tuneups before a race this weekend. Everywhere else B skis was a good idea, some dirt/thin spots here and there.
February 17 2025	Fair	Skate	Andrew Leaf
🔗	Most trails were touched up at 3 this afternoon. Skate deck has firmed up quite a bit. Some excellent stretches, some with drifted snow, and other places with bare spots. Classic tracks in most places, but at least a few bare spots in those as well. Overall enjoyable skiing though!
February 15 2025	Fair	Skate and Classic	McCarthy Park Groomers
🔗	Groomers will be out early, skiing open around 9:30 AM.

Monona Golf Course (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
February 21 2025	Fair	Skate	Roger A Goppelt
🔗	I skied Maple Bluff Golf Course but could not find rhe nane on this website. Today it was skow but nixe skating tracks. Sone damage feom dog walkers but stilk a nice ski.

Odana Golf Course (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
February 19 2025	Good	Classic	TG
🔗	Track has been reset since the drifting of last few days. Odana in best shape since it snowed last week. Many areas quite excellent. Skate deck looked good though some thin spots with grass showing here and there in both tracks and skate deck.
February 18 2025	Fair	Classic	M. Young
🔗	Classic tracks were poor on most of the loop. Groomed over, wind blown and just plain bad. Few areas of grass or dirt, but generally decent coverage. Skate deck looked better in general.
February 16 2025	Good	Skate	Gerry G
🔗	I don’t know much about grooming, but it seemed some grooming has been done for skating, but the track seemed blown over by snow in a number of areas. That said, it was decent skiing even in those patches, with virtually no grass/roots. Altogether quite decent - too bad forecast is so cold.
February 15 2025	Excellent	Classic	Matt W
🔗	Excellent, fast, powder. Fun on the groomed track, or even side quests through the snow. No classic tracks yet though.

University Ridge Golf Course (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
February 19 2025	Good	Skate and Classic	University Ridge Staff
🔗	We groomed again today. The trails are thin but holding up well on the Zimmer Loops. Their are a few thinner spots on the transition parts of Bucky's Pass. Open until 4pm today and 9-5pm tomorrow. Please check in when you arrive at the Golf Shop.
February 15 2025	Excellent	Skate and Classic	Paula Graf
🔗	Freshly groomed and in excellent condition this afternoon. Thanks to the grooming crew for all of their work this morning!
February 15 2025	Good	Skate and Classic	University Ridge Staff
🔗	We waited until the snow stopped this morning to groom all trails for skate and classic skiing. We will be open from 9-4pm tomorrow.
February 14 2025	Fair	Skate	Dirk Lacker
🔗	Lots of rocks first 150ft, just walk on up to crest of Aurthers. Zimmer and Toms are paper thin but smooth and flat without trail hazards. Experienced skiers with a gentle touch could make a ski out of it. Slight route addition on Tom's was a nice touch. Didn’t ski Buckys

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Just North of Madison

Mirror Lake SP - Baraboo (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
February 14 2025	Fair	Classic	Aaron
🔗	As of Friday, the park service has not worked on any trails. Regardless people are making their own classic tracks and making do. Did the Cliffwood Coulee Trail, which is one of the newer trails. Not too much snow so some leaf/sticks were an issue but was managable. It's a scenic trail that overlooks the Ishnala gorge and its cliffs. Unfortunately it is used by hikers...but footprints aren't too bad until you get north of the Ishnala bridge. Four inches is coming in tonight...staff plans on doing a morning skate groom of Fern Dell, Turtleville, and Hastings. Fern Dell will be the first and should be done before 11. I doubt they do any other trails on Sat. I suspect classic skaters will make their own tracks on Northwest, Pioneer, and Ishnala.

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