Originally Posted by
mstateglfr
Look up the Grand Illinois Trail. Its basically a route that uses a bunch of individual trails and sone rural roads to form a 575mile route encircling northern Illinois.
You could incorporate that into the ride to Minneapolis.
+1,
and this looped route we made below can connect you to Minnie-St. Paul from the Grand IL trail (Map is in 2 parts). There is quite a bit of rail to trail riding in the first 250 miles.
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/11562367
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/11438913
Last edited by robow; 11-24-16 at 11:54 PM.