Take a Sunday Drive on the Old Plank Road Trail (OPRT) directly to the Frankfort Country Market.
The Trail has seen lots of changes over the past 150 years. Before 1850 it was a major communication, trading and transportation corridor for Native Americans and the occasional missionary, fur trader, trapper, or explorer.
Since 1850 it's been an emigration route for European settlers looking for land to settle on. It's also a communication and transportation hub for our modern society. The OPRT area is a railroad corridor, the route of oil and gas pipelines, Chicago's link to the electric distribution grid, a crossroad of Interstate traffic, and the home of microwave, copper and fiber optic networks that link the nation with Internet, telephone and television services.
Now the trail is used for recreation and as a nature preserve but there's plenty of evidence along the right-of-way of other and older uses.
Trail Etiquette
All users should keep to the right.
Bicycles and roller-bladers must yield to pedestrians.
Let other trail users know when you are passing by saying, “on your left.”
All animals must be leashed and pet waste must be picked up by owner.
Old Plank Trail Bicycle Route
For a printable map of Frankfort on the Old Plank Road Trail, Click on this link:
