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Day Trips Slideshow
Check out this slideshow from our Day Trips, then sign up to join the fun this winter!
Carol Ruhter

The Trailhead

From Carol Ruhter, Trailbound Trip’s founder and guide.

"Don’t forget to laugh today! It’s good for the soul!"

Register for these Fabulous Adventures

  • Winter Day Trips ~ Jan. 5-Feb. 27, 2021 ~ 10am - noon Explore winter’s exhilarating wild beauty in Northern Illinois!

Adventures in the Making

  • Coming in 2022!
    Winter: UP Dogsled (WI)
    Summer: Summer Evening Biking(IL)

    Interested? Email and ask to be on our "1st dibs" list. No cost/obligation to be on that list.

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Welcome to Trailbound Trips...

Our outdoor adventures delight, inspire, encourage, and strengthen women.

Join us for fun hiking and bicycling day trips in Northern Illinois’ wild places. Bike under canopies of autumn color and along rippling streams … hike through forests dappled with spring wildflowers or in tall grass prairies … discover coyote dens and follow deer paths … walk through pristine winter wonderlands.

Explore and enjoy the Midwest’s most beautiful gems. Dogsled through Lake Superior’s Northwoods … kayak gentle streams under covered bridges … hike behind waterfalls and through canyons … horseback ride and bike through woodlands and meadows … savor vistas and sunsets from 500-foot bluffs. (Trails by day — lodges by night.)

Follow your heart on weeklong dream trips to destinations like Acadia, Maine, nestled by the Atlantic ocean … Utah’s gorgeous red rock canyon-lands … Oregon’s coastline, cascades, and Crater Lake… Waterfall tours through Carolina’s Blue Ridge wilderness … Snow-capped mountain wildernesses packed with wildlife and beauty. (Trails by day; lodges by night).

Discover:

  • Breathtaking beauty, unforgettable trails, and true outdoor adventure.
  • Your own adventurous spirit, renewed confidence, and exhilaration.
  • Tranquility: time to walk in silence, savor beauty, play outdoors again.
  • Friends who share your love of nature and the outdoors.
  • New ways to view nature and yourself through nature-based discussions. We also offer trips with a Christian focus, which are noted accordingly.

Enjoy this all with the friendliness, knowledge, and encouraging can-do attitudes of your experienced guides.

Join us! Explore. Dream. Discover.

2020 Schedule

Autumn

  • Day trips (IL): Sep 1 - Oct 24 Guides: Scout & Jet

2021 Schedule

Winter

  • Day trips (IL): Guides: Scout

Spring

  • Day Trips (IL): Guides: Scout

Summer

  • Summer Bike Rides: Guides: Scout

Autumn

  • Day trips in Northern Illinois: Guides: Scout