Originally Posted by
indyfabz
We rode on 61 for a while to get from Minneapolis to Red Wing. New experience for me. At least it was a Sunday, so it wasn’t as busy as I imagined it got.
I ended up following US61 much of my trip. The grades tended to be better than the rural roads. It actually wasn’t all that bad, although it did vary in terms of shoulder width. Not as badly as the roads in Illinois did, however. US highways in Illinois would go from great shoulder to no shoulder on a seemingly random basis.