Originally Posted by
mstateglfr
'real climbing'
Is there even a single real climb in Iowa? (/kidding)
For the sake of argument, most secondary roads in Iowa are definitely well-compacted
gravel-aggregate. Of course, Iowa has
dirt roads too, but they are fewer and farther between. The pic below is a designated "B"-road, minimum service road southeast of Cedar Rapids; the surface was definitely more dirt than gravel.
