The official route announcement in January was for the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa to stop in “Okoboji,” but the maps only show the route following A34 through Milford. It was the Iowa Great Lakes area as a whole that got the stop.
Now with less than a week to go, we know more details from the overnight website. Campers will be spread out at four different locations, including the town of Okoboji proper and up at Spirit Lake school. Campers in Milford will leave on A34, while those to the north will use US 71 and 240th Avenue out of Arnolds Park.
Entering this year, Spirit Lake was the sixth-largest Iowa city and largest non-suburb* that RAGBRAI had never been to. That second distinction now passes to Kalona, pop. 2363.
*This is intended as a short-hand and not a slight to Bettendorf, which has been passed by Urbandale as the largest unvisited city overall. RAGBRAI has never officially ended in Bettendorf, which I was surprised to see when I charted everything.