Big Ravine - West Rim Trail

**★★★★★ A L E X Greb — 6 months ago

The road to this trailhead is off rice on the downhill side of the mailboxes. It does not look like a road. It looks like a driveway, go up it, behind the cottages. Thru the woods. Be careful, it needs maintenance. When you get to the top it looks like a government building and .... a buried dome. Go behind the dome. Thats where the trail marker/map are. Good Luck. Watch put for bears, coyotes and fox.

**★★★★★ Sid S — a year ago

My Wife and I came here 2-18-24. Snow on the ground, air temp 34 degrees, stream mostly frozen over. We came to hike the Big Ravine, Gil Larson Nature Trail/ Iron Bridge area. We hiked for roughly 2.5 hours, had our 2 medium size dogs with us. The hiking was fenominal with many great views, very nice overall how secluded you are all while being in Bayfield WI. We will certainly be back. We loved it, our dogs loved it.

**★★★★★ Stephanie Grady — 2 years ago

This was a great little hike tucked behind the Apostle Island visitor center. The top of the rim was a nice easy walk through the woods, but when you venture down into the ravine, the terrain is a bit more moderate. At the bottom there is a nice water fall and flowing creek. Beautiful.

**★★★★☆ chris kemper — a year ago

This was a very short and scenic trail Drive up to the Soccer field upon top of the hill. If you went to the graveyard, you went too far. Trail is very well marked.

**★★★☆☆ Carrie Wilmot — 2 years ago

There-and-back trail that is similar throughout. Not many wildflowers compared to in the ravine. The ravine does impressively plunge down. An easy trail. There are lots of side trails, but we did not explore any of these. Not much of a view at the end of the trail. If you want excitement you can take a thrilling trail (Hemlock Lane) into the ravine and join up with the Gil Larson trail which is much more interesting with the creek and wildflowers.