Iowa’s popular RAGBRAI bike tour will include Minnesota

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Bob Timmons
Thu April 03 2025
Posted Apr 24
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Hamlin, Iowa, during the first leg of the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, or RAGBRAI, in 2013. (Christopher Gannon/The Des Moines Register)

Iowa’s famous long-distance bike tour across the state will include a section in Minnesota for the first time in the ride’s 51 year history.

RAGBRAI organizers announced the news Thursday, part of the big reveal of this summer’s full route. The ride is July 19-26.

Day two of the seven-day ride includes 15 miles in Minnesota. The tour will roll past Brown Park South, southwest of Jackson, Minn., and just north of the Minnesota-Iowa border. Cyclists will continue on toward Superior, Iowa, to end the day’s section.

“For over five decades, we’ve explored every corner of Iowa, and this year, we’re taking it to the next level riding into Minnesota,” RAGBRAI Ride Director Matt Phippen said in a news release. “It will be an unforgettable experience.”