Trail Conditions

Near Madison

BlackHawk Ski Area (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
March 17 2026	Good	Skate	Harry Read
🔗	The Erdman link trail was also groomed and made for a nice ski. Conditions should also be quite good for classic.
March 17 2026	Good	Skate	Kyle Richard
🔗	Blackhawk was groomed, including tracks. Conditions were very soft with a few icy patches, but otherwise a great ski. I skated, but the tracks looked very nice.

Blue Mound SP (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
March 19 2026	Good	Classic	SkiBadger
🔗	Still good this morning, snow coverage 99%, except on the road from campground to military ridge trail, which was melting fast. Still 6-10 trees and branches down across the trails. Soft and slow but still fun!
March 18 2026	Good	Classic	SkiBadger
🔗	Had a delightful ski on a citizen-established classic track. 3"-9" of snow, but trails are not groomed. Perhaps because there's 5-6 trees down along the trail north and west of the Friend's shelter. Fairly straightforward to side-step over them. Didn't hit any bare ground, but there are a 4-5 wet/icy spots. Enjoy the snow while it lasts!

CXC Outdoor Rec Center (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
March 18 2026	Fair	Skate	Bryce
🔗	Thanks Yuriy for grooming trails for skate ! Fair to poor for night skiing , definitely soft. I thought the blue plus black diamond loop was in the best condition. Would recommend doing it counter clockwise, as the S turn on the black had some bare spots and it’s nice to do uphill for that (at least for me ) . Still was great to ski!
March 18 2026	Good	Skate	Yuriy
🔗	1 inch of new snow overnight. CXC trails have been groomed for skating in the AM. Use B-skis or rock skis, as some areas have very thin coverage.
March 18 2026	Good	Skate	Yuriy
🔗	About a 5 km loop was packed with the snowcat and groomed for skating with a pull-behind groomer between 10:00 and 11:30 PM on Tuesday. We'll groom it again on Wednesday morning if needed. There are a few thin areas. Please ski with caution on downhills, as there is not enough snow to fully smooth the surface. Important note: All trails on the golf course are closed.
March 4 2026	Fair	Skate	Yuriy
🔗	Groomed for skating. Probably last grooming of the season unless we get a March winter storm.
March 3 2026	Fair	Skate	Yuriy
🔗	Groomed for skating. Will be re-groomed for classic only around 5pm.

Elver Park (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
March 18 2026	Fair	Classic	Andrew
🔗	No grooming, but pretty good skied-in tracks throughout the whole system. Better tracks on the west side, but the east side isn't bad. All told, it's fair to good, but certainly worth it.
March 17 2026	Fair	Classic	Robin Downs
🔗	It was wishful thinking on my part- I had hoped the previous trail report was referring to machine grooming. Nope, but a decent citizen track exists and its better than biking in the basement.
March 17 2026	Excellent	Classic	john
🔗	someone beat me to the setting of tracks on Eastside.TRAILS so I put in a tandem set- GETT'M WHILE THEY LAST
March 16 2026	Excellent	Classic	John skopek
🔗	Looks like I’m up for track setting again in AM. East system
March 16 2026	Excellent	Classic	John skopek
🔗	I tracked the whole west trail system— sometimes twice over. EnjoyWinter

Odana Golf Course (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
March 18 2026	Good	Classic	Bonnie
🔗	Thank heaven for whom ever laid a track there this morning. I skied at 9:30am. Delightful track. Better than when they do it by machine and a better route by the way. The return trail along the north edge along Odana Road toward the shelter was getting icy and problematic, sticking to the skis. Odd.
March 17 2026	Fair	Classic	dan
🔗	Golf carts have arrived, volunteer tracks are bumpy, ski and have some fun.

East of Madison

Lapham Peak - Delafield (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
March 17 2026	Fair	Skate	Ken w
🔗	The manmade loop had been rolled after the big snow. But seemed like a single pass and was still very soft and uneven. It was pretty slow and careful skiing, but It packed down a bit with skier traffic. If they roll it again tomorrow, it could be reasonably good. No classic tracks set. I did see evidence of some intrepid skier who did some back country striding out onto the rest of the trail system, but I did not have the right gear to pursue further thru the deep I groomed snow.
March 3 2026	Fair	Skate	daniel dudley
🔗	Fair to good conditions this morning although it was not groomed- north end of loop bare ground -crossover holding up well even though in the sun but has a few very icy spots Did not attempt magic carpet. Should be still skiable tomorrow and Thursday until the big rain comes on Friday.

Just North of Madison

Mirror Lake SP - Baraboo (Back to Top)

Date	Condition	Style	By
March 17 2026	Poor	Classic	Dan D
🔗	12” of snow Fern dell was only rolled with 12” windows in the middle uneven and soft Hopefully they will groom it
March 16 2026	Poor	Skate and Classic	Aaron
🔗	Mirror lake got about 14 inches of snow, but the trails are not yet groomed. I called the parked office on March 16th and they said conditions were 'too dangerous' to work today. They might work on the trails tomorrow morning (March 17th) though. If they do groom on the 17th, trail conditions should be excellent.

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