The loop is a bit broken right now but will be back in summer, I'm sure, when water level is lower. This is a multi use trail, so you will have bikes and horses, but everyone was courteous. The honey bucket was clean, bring your own hand sanitizer. And the only drawback was ticks.... we had one hitch a ride into town.

We made a loop on the east side of the pond, heading down along the pond and back up along the ridge. The trail was muddy in places, but passable. 

Birds we saw included:

Buffleheads

Common Goldeneyes 

Trumpeter Swans 

Common Mergansers 

Redheads

Wigeons 

Ring-necked Ducks

Bald Eagle 

Northern Harrier (doing an aerial display)

There were Sagebrush Buttercups on the sunny ridges. We also saw a bee and two butterflies (and found a tick when we got home). 

Trail was, unsurprisingly, a mix of muddy, snowy and icy, but still easily passable. (My 6-year-old managed it without a problem.) Beautiful area, even in the rain, but lots of dog poop on the trail.

A very cold day -16' in the morning,  and crystal clear. Took a friend from the west side on this loop, figuring the entire loop would be traversable due to the marshy part being frozen.  (It was).  The trail was in good condition with a few muddy sections, but not bad.  Hundreds of birds were in the lakes-swans, ducks and geese. When one reaches the marshy section, the grass had been trampled down into a trail of sorts until it skirted around the end of the ditch of water.  Then the terrain becomes dry and the trail obvious.   

We came to find a terracaches at the pet cemetery.  Didn't really follow any trail but bushwhacked our way up to the top of the hill.  Saw a snake, but didn't get any ticks.  Nice place with a nice memorial to local pets.