RAGBRAI riders in 2025 will have it easy.
After the hilliest Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa ever in 2024 and a 500-plus-mile ride in 2023, this year's edition will be among the flattest and shortest.
It also will feature the ride’s first visit in more than a decade to one of Iowa’s favorite tourist attractions.
Back north after a foray into the slopes of southern Iowa last year, RAGBRAI 52's list of overnight towns was announced at the annual route reveal party Saturday night, held for the first time at Vibrant Music Hall in Waukee. The ride will start in Orange City on July 20 and end in the Mississippi River town of Guttenberg on July 26.