{"id":14766,"date":"2023-03-20T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14766"},"modified":"2023-03-19T22:15:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T03:15:18","slug":"ragbrai-l-count-up-to-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/ragbrai-l-count-up-to-50\/","title":{"rendered":"RAGBRAI L: Count-up to 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/2023\/01\/29\/ragbrai-route-2023-map-distance-towns-announced-dates-iowa-sioux-city-ames-des-moines-davenport\/69744538007\/\">In a change from January<\/a>, the RAGBRAI L route <a href=\"https:\/\/ragbrai.com\/check-out-newly-announced-50th-anniversary-ragbrai-pass-through-and-meeting-towns\/\">announced March 13<\/a>\u00a0does not have a total of 50 communities. A RAGBRAI staffer posted online on March 15 that road construction and bridge issues have affected plans, and that the century loop and gravel routes have not been announced yet.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stormlake.com\/articles\/aurelia-votes-to-join-ragbrai-route-while-alta-passes\/\">this <em>Storm Lake Times Pilot<\/em> story<\/a> that says Alta, which got its <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/analysis-of-2021-ragbrai-map\/\">first-ever visit<\/a> from RAGBRAI in 2021, did not want the ride to go through. (I hope that\u2019s not a trend.) No Alta meant no Aurelia.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to find 50 communities along <a href=\"https:\/\/ragbrai.com\/ragbrai-l-full-route\/\">the route as published<\/a> in mid-March? Let&#8217;s find out.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From the official statewide map, we start with nine overnight cities (<strong>Tama<\/strong> and <strong>Toledo<\/strong> should be counted as two), seven meeting towns, and 23 pass-through towns. That\u2019s <strong>39<\/strong> communities.<\/li>\n<li>Three incorporated cities are directly on the route but don&#8217;t have stars on the map, and should be counted as pass-through: <strong>Lakeside<\/strong>, just south of Storm Lake; <strong>Berkley<\/strong>, on E57 east of Rippey, a first-timer; and <strong>Lambs Grove<\/strong>, Newton\u2019s largest suburb. <strong>42<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>The map shows Camp Cardinal Boulevard and US 6 in the Coralville area, so University Heights is <em>not<\/em> eligible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>There are two unincorporated towns on IA 22 that are not listed: <strong>Fairport<\/strong> and <strong>Montpelier<\/strong>. <strong>44<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Add a minimum of three Amanas: <strong>West<\/strong>, <strong>High<\/strong>, and <strong>Middle<\/strong>. <strong>47<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li>Based on existing information, Homestead is an edge case. Our best precedent is 1976, whose map solidly included Homestead between Main Amana and Oxford. If there&#8217;s any departure from the US 151\/6 route it&#8217;s in for sure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now it\u2019s time for some fudge (factors), with maybe a teensy dash of Tama County bias.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ride follows R38 between Ames and Slater. The town of <strong>Kelley<\/strong> is just off R38, on E57, but it\u2019s very close, the city limits touch R38, and R Place Pub and Pizza is at the intersection.\u00a0<strong>48<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The ride follows T47 and then E49, skimming the southeast corner of <strong>Montour<\/strong>. It\u2019s going to be 25 miles from Grinnell to Tama without a stopping spot otherwise, so I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if a lot of riders take an unauthorized(?) hill into town in search of services. <strong>49<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, directly on the route, with validation from the state map, here\u2019s <strong>No. 50: Haven<\/strong>. It\u2019s a map dot on E64 southeast of Tama that has a church and a <a href=\"http:\/\/schoolhouses.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/richland-township-haven.html\">restored one-room school<\/a>.\u00a0That&#8217;s more than <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/05\/ragbrai-xlviii-v3-0\/\">Six Mile had in 2021<\/a>\u00a0or Wichita in 2006.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So by my count, we have 48 place-names for sure, including eight unincorporated, and at least two more with decent to strong arguments. RAGBRAI L can claim 50-for-50 after all, and depending on the loops, even have a bonus or two. That could change depending on what shows up in the upcoming months.<\/p>\n<p>The map will be analyzed in a future post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a change from January, the RAGBRAI L route announced March 13\u00a0does not have a total of 50 communities. A RAGBRAI staffer posted online on March 15 that road construction and bridge issues have affected plans, and that the century &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/ragbrai-l-count-up-to-50\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14766"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14775,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14766\/revisions\/14775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}