Bikepacking Roots will publish updates or detours for any route closures of which we are aware that are likely to last for more than a short time. These longer-term closures may result from wildfires, logging, construction, flooding, etc. We cannot guarantee that we will be aware of all route closures, particularly during peak wildfire season, and for short-lived closures due to small wildfires, detours may not be issued. Also note that any posted detours have will most likely not been scouted on the ground. Should you encounter a closure along the route, please obey all posted regulations and seek out your own detour if we have not created one.

Updates/alerts for the Northwoods Route for the 2022 riding season:

• On 7/9 the road culvert was out on Esther Lake Road just South of Arrowhead Rd in the Southern Part of the Chippewa land. It is chest deep, but easily wadable because there is no current. 
• Two short detours are recommended in northwestern Wisconsin:
  • Solon Springs detour: This short detour immediately northwest of Solon Springs gets a few miles of the route off the Wild Rivers ATV Trail on which the gravel has become quite deep and soft (one mile of this detour remains on the ATV trail).
    
  • Hawthorne detour: A railroad crossing has been removed from one of the roads just northwest of Hawthorne, and trains have reportedly been parking across this road. This short detour follows a paved road just to the east.