{"id":12640,"date":"2021-02-03T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12640"},"modified":"2021-05-04T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T00:53:00","slug":"analysis-of-2021-ragbrai-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/analysis-of-2021-ragbrai-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of 2021 RAGBRAI map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12706\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/PburgBigBike.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/PburgBigBike.jpg 610w, https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/PburgBigBike-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><em><strong>July 22, 2015:<\/strong> A sculpture made of bicycle parts greets RAGBRAI riders as they go through Parkersburg.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>UPDATE 5\/4\/21: Revised with information following revised daily route maps.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In October, the RAGBRAI website put out <em>unlabeled<\/em>\u00a0daily maps, based on the plan from 2020, while also mentioning the meeting towns (daily halfway points). It was pretty easy to figure things out from there. But I waited to post the list, to check on certain edge cities and to make sure something weird didn&#8217;t happen. (I mean, weird<em>er<\/em>.) This turned out to be exceptionally prudent, because on what typically would have been the overnight-stop announcement day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/life\/living-well\/ragbrai\/2021\/01\/30\/ragbrai-xlviii-full-route-announced-sac-city-dewitt-2021-coronavirus-gravel-precautions\/4182164001\/\">the full 2021 route was released<\/a> with some segments completely changed.\u00a0Here are my observations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Alta&#8217;s wait is over!<\/em> After being skipped over so many times as riders came into Storm Lake, the town gets its first visit. This will make Traer the largest non-suburb never to have RAGBRAI pass through. &#8220;All Out for Alta&#8221; &#8211; there&#8217;s your promo.<\/li>\n<li><del>IA 3 between Remsen and Meriden has never been used before.<\/del><\/li>\n<li>Part of the original Day 2 route was shifted to Day 1, as Sac City replaces Storm Lake as an overnight stop.<\/li>\n<li><del>Most of the route between Sac City and New Hartford follows the pre-four-lane alignment of US 20. (Some deviations have been added.)<\/del>\u00a0Lytton and Moorland, unable to be visited in the past because of the heavy traffic on US 20, are both on the route for the first time.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;optional gravel day&#8221; appears to go into Wright County but anyone following this will only go through Webster City and Alden.<\/li>\n<li>The official map plays fast and loose with some &#8220;towns&#8221;. <del>Roelyn is an elevator. Raymar is a collection of houses that should have been annexed by Elk Run Heights years ago, and the RAGBRAI map omits the latter for some reason.<\/del> Alice is a church. Hale is a supper club, which is enough to get it on the state map. Six Mile is a collection of houses. Not marked: Prairie Valley Elementary School, out on its lonesome at the D46\/P21 intersection between Rinard and Somers.<\/li>\n<li>Newell is dropped for <del>Schaller and<\/del> Early. Dike and Hudson are dropped for Janesville.<\/li>\n<li>I am disappointed\/surprised that the roads are not labeled on the route maps. [UPDATE: They were on 5\/4.] Also, Aplington is misspelled on the main and daily maps [also fixed].<\/li>\n<li>Stone City, Viola, Whittier, and Waubeek \u2014 all unincorporated \u2014 are on the Karras Loop.<\/li>\n<li>Oxford Junction to Clinton is on an entirely different route, because De Witt replaces Maquoketa for an overnight and a <em>really<\/em> short Day 7.<\/li>\n<li><del>The 2020\/2021 routes for RAGBRAI and Iowa&#8217;s Ride intersect at Alden, and both follow nearly the same route between Urbana and Central City.<\/del><\/li>\n<li>First ever visits: <del>Cleghorn, Meriden<\/del>, Alta (as noted above), Early, Lytton, <em>Yetter<\/em>,\u00a0<del>Somers<\/del>, <em>Callender<\/em>, Moorland, Janesville, Calamus.<\/li>\n<li>Evansdale and Elk Run Heights, both last visited in 1974, are back on the map after a very, very long wait. Other pre-2000 towns: <del>Brandon, Urbana, and<\/del> Center Point (1985); <del>Remsen and<\/del> Rinard (1998) and Jesup (1998).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 22, 2015: A sculpture made of bicycle parts greets RAGBRAI riders as they go through Parkersburg. UPDATE 5\/4\/21: Revised with information following revised daily route maps. In October, the RAGBRAI website put out unlabeled\u00a0daily maps, based on the plan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/analysis-of-2021-ragbrai-map\/\">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":[18,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12640"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13006,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640\/revisions\/13006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}