Above: some of the scenery that you'll see on rides in our area. This is from an organized ride on county road J40 in nearby Davis County.
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Places to ride
(Note: Trail surfaces vary. Not all are paved.)
Iowa
Jefferson County Trails (Fairfield)
Volksweg Trail (Pella and Lake Red Rock)
Wabash Trace Nature Trail (southwest Iowa)
Linn County Trails (Cedar Rapids metro)
Johnson County Trails (Iowa City metro)
Cedar Valley trails (Waterloo/Cedar Falls metro)
Prairie Farmer Trail (Winneshiek/Howard co)
​Neighboring states
Katy Trail and State Park in mid-Missouri​
Cowboy Trail in northeast Nebraska
La Crosse River State Trail in western Wisconsin
Elroy-Sparta State Trail in western Wisconsin
Wiouwash State Trail in northeast Wisconsin
Mountain-Bay State Trail in northern Wisconsin
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​Organized rides in Iowa and neighboring states
(Note: The club does not formally organize anything for these events. This list is simply provided as a resource. More events will be added as they are found. However, club members are certainly welcome to make plans with other members to ride these events.)
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May 24-25, 2025 - Pedaler's Jamboree. A two-day bicycle ride and music festival on the Katy State Trail in the Columbia and Boonville, Missouri area.
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June 1-7, 2025 - Bike Ride Across Nebraska. BRAN offers small town hospitality and the beauty of the rolling terrain on the great plains through Nebraska. This year's route starts in Oshkosh and ends in Fremont.
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June 1-6, 2025 - RASDak (Ride Across South Dakota). This​ year's route is in the Hermosa area, nearby Custer State Park, Mount Rushmore, and the Black Hills.
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June 6-14, 2025 - Biking Across Kansas. It begins at the Colorado state line and St. Francis, and ends in Elwood along the Missouri River and state line.
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June 8-14-2025 - Ride the Fault Line. Ride portions of Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee in 7 days.
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June 24-29, 2025 - Tour de Nebraska. A fully sagged, 5-day bicycle tour, pedaling through beautiful, scenic rural Nebraska every year in June. This year's ride will visit the communities of Curtis, Elwood, Cambridge, and McCook in southern Nebraska. ​
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August 2, 2025 - Dairyland Dare. Set in the Dodgeville and Mineral Point area in southwest Wisconsin, the land untouched by glacial flattening during the last ice age, the Dairyland Dare offers some of the most extreme hills in the Midwest. Distances are 50K, 100K, 150K, or 200K.
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​TBA 2025 - Bicycling Around Minnesota.
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​Big BAM rides on the Katy Trail across mid-Missouri. June 1-7 and October 5-11, 2025
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Bike Wisconsin and Bicycle Illinois offer several events in their respective states.
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