Mont Du Lac

Difficulty: Intermediate

Length: 5 miles

Story: Mont du Lac is the only private land that COGGS helps manage trails on.  For years COGGS was the sole maintainer of the trails at Mont du Lac, but in 2008 Larry Lagergren purchased Mont du Lac and hired Brad Miller to manage the mountain bike trails. Mont du Lac also has a tremendous disc golf course amongst the moutain bike trails.

A season long pass to ride at Mont du Lac can be purchased for $50 and day passes are $5.  Mont du Lac also allows COGGS members to ride the trails on Tuesday for free and if you put in 10 hours of trail work you get a season pass free, allowing you to ride there 7 days per week.

The trail itself is classic rooty, up and down Midwest singletrack.  To start your ride you pedal up the service road top of it and the singletrack starts right by the top of the chair lift.  This gets you on a 5 mile loop that is easy to follow.  The trail goes along streams, drainages, meadows and through a cedar grove, providing some of the best views of the St. Louis River Valley found anywhere.  Most of the trail is intermediate in technical difficulty, but the elevation changes can be quite challenging cardiovascularly.

Mont du Lac opens up their bar on Tuesday nights for the COGGS Tuesday Night Ride and also league play for the disc golfers.  They have food as well so there's always COGGS members hanging out afterwards and socializing.

COGGS would like to thank owner Larry Lagergren, general manager Mike Cameron, Disc Golf Coordinator Brian Lagergren and Mountain Bike Manager Brad Miller for all their support in the past year.