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01-08-20 | 12:44 PM

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mstateglfr

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From: Des Moines, IA

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Originally Posted by balto charlie

Here is a map with many gravel roads around the country. Just link them up in the area you want to ride. Surprisingly quite a few roads.
https://gravelmap.com/#@39.048504793...2268,9,roadmap

Is it surprising?
Iowa alone has over 70,000 miles of gravel roads. And we are hardly a large state in geographic size.

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