Elm Creek Cross Country Trails have closed for the season. Thank you to everyone who came out to ski this year! Hopefully we get some colder temps and more snow next winter!

(Dominic Ray, Three Rivers Park District)

I classic skied on the Northern Lights and the Valley Trail. No grooming but generally deep skied in tracks. Skiing on the crust is also possible. There is plenty of snow. In places the tracks are so deep that they drag on your boots so crust skiing is a better option in places. I used waxless skis which worked well.

(Mark Basiletti)

Worth scraping the storage wax off for. Started at 7:15 and found some skied in tracks on Eagle, I broke trail on Monarch and parts of Creek. Ungroomed but a great adventure ski to welcome spring. For those that are interested I had 2 layers of Swix VP40 and 1 layer of VP30 and didn't have issues with kick or icing.

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(Nils Wahlander)

I skied just after the rain stopped and a sign said opened but ungroomed. Earlier skiers had broken trail on most of it especially by the lesson loop. The heavy wet snow made skiing slow but was not sticky. Full coverage except thin under the bridge to the sledding hill.

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(Brad Anderson)

The Valley Trail remains open but ungroomed. Grooming has finished for the season. Thank you for making the most of this warm winter at Elm Creek!

(Dominic Ray, Three Rivers Park District)

Trails were not groomed so very icy and full of ruts. Still skiable, but gnarly ski. Tracks set where enough snow and rock hard. Some really nice double pole sections. A few sections of the trail (e.g. top of the wall) with very little coverage. Looks like that's it for grooming at Elm this year.

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(Erik Erickson)

Open but rutted and icy. Trail open but not groomed. Not worth the drive to get here. It would be nice if they would post this information.

(Dave Bridges)

Late morning was ok - the tracks were soft enough for hill climbing, and not too slushy. Some dirty spots, but not many leaves. The valley cutoff was closed, but everything else was open. No tracks set on the donut.

(Laurie Ford)

The Elm Creek glacier is rapidly receding. The full machine made loop is still open, other than the Wall bypass, but the conditions are deteriorating. The skate deck is soft and slow, dirty in spots, turning gray in spots. It was freshly groomed this morning, but the park crew drove the Gator over some of it around 10:00 am. Classic tracks were set from the chalet south, but not towards the Donut, which is turning brown/gray, and is narrowing. The tracks are shallow/icy in spots and soft/slow in spots. Good skis can still be used without worry, but maybe not for much longer. This is definitely skiing for the spring skiing lover, but not for everyone.

(Ken Tobacman)

I skied this morning and the whole snowmaking loop was well groomed. The skaters were flying around the loops. I was the only classic skier at the park. The tracks were icy early on, but warmed up nicely to give more kick.

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(Bill Lundberg)