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Great Rivers South Section 1


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The northern segment of the Great Rivers Bicycle Route from Muscatine, Iowa, south to Hannibal, Missouri, closely follows the flood plain of the Mississippi River. These riverside roads in Illinois are rural farm-to-market roads, connecting small farming communities along the river and providing access to shipping terminals for local farm products. They are narrow blacktop roads with no shoulders and little traffic. The Mississippi bridge crossing into Missouri at Hannibal brings you into Mark Twain territory.

 

Current Printed Version: 2007

For more information on this route or to print out the most up to date addenda for this map please click on link below:

www.adventurecycling.org/routes/greatrivers.cfm

 



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14 of 30 found the following review helpful:
5 Stars Challenging and Fun
by Brent McLaughlin from Miami, FL on Aug 31, 2011
  In 6 days, we road over half of this route from Nauvoo, IL to St. Louis, Missouri and stayed in Bed and Breakfasts along the way. The route truly has it all. The terrain is quite varied from flat riverfront roads along the Mississippi River, to gently rolling Missouri farm land to steep up and down "mountain" like roads along the river bluff to a section of the Katy Trail. Some of the towns along the way were quite interesting (i.e. Nauvoo, Hannibal, St. Louis). There was a significant road closure this summer (2011) which we were informed by locals that it may become permanent due to a massive landslide. It is between Hannibal and Louisiana, Missouri. The detour was 7 miles on a gravel road. Everywhere along this route, we found people to be extremely friendly and helpful. It seemed like they didn't often see folks touring on bicycles.
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