5 - Western end
In Chippewa County, the trail again winds among numerous lakes and bogs in the moraine of Chippewa Lobe. Bearing north, the trail goes over the high quartzite shoulder of the Blue Hills in Rusk County amid small streams in an ash, birch, and maple forest. The northernmost point of the trail is reached in southeastern Washburn County along the Tuscobia State Trail at the Red Cedar River. The Trail route winds through the dairy country of Barron and Polk Counties to its western end in the Interstate State Park Ice Age Reserve Unit at the Dalles of the St. Croix River.

Permit Information
No permit needed.

Directions
This trail segment begins in Chippewa County, and travels west to the western end of the Trail in the Interstate State Park Ice Age Reserve Unit at the Dalles of the St. Croix River.

Information Center
There is an Ice Age Interpretive Center and Park Office, in Interstate Park Ice Age Unit, in St. Croix Falls. Check in at the Chippewa Moraine Ice Age Unit, in New Auburn.

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