It only seems right that the birth place of RAGBRAI is also home to five of the top 200 cities with quality biking infrastructure.
More than 20 Iowa towns made the PeopleForBikes' 2024 City Ratings, which ranked 2,300 cities across the country based on their bike network.
The data came from PeopleForBikes' Bicycle Network Analysis. It is based on six factors including safe speeds, protected bike lanes, reallocated space for biking and walking, intersection treatments, network connections and trusted data. High-scoring cities scored well across all six factors. The cities were divided into three categories: Large, medium and small. All Iowa cities were classified as medium or small cities in the ranking system. Iowa's cities either fell in the medium or small classification.
So which Iowa towns have the best biking networks?