Great Rivers South Section 1

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.