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Pam German of RRVT shows banner at Iowa Bicycle Summit & Expo
Jim Sievers of RRVT shows off Jersey at Iowa Bicycle Summit and ExpoThe display on the Raccoon River Valley Trail drew lots of attention from a crowd estimated at about 3,000 for the Iowa Bicycle Summit & Expo on Saturday, Jan. 28, at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines. Five members of the RRVT Association’s board of directors and three other members of the association all staffed the RRVT booth, and they stayed busy all day long. In the larger photo here, Pam German of Dallas Center is shown answering questions about the trail from riders who were looking at a map of the trail on a RRVT banner. In the smaller photo, Jim Sievers of Panora & Guthrie Center is showing off one of the RRVT cycling jerseys designed by artist Brian Duffy, to two cyclists considering buying one of them. Following the summit & expo, more than 1,000 people attended Saturday night’s RAGBRAI route announcement party at the same site. That’s when the overnight host communities for this summer’s big ride across Iowa were announced – Sioux Center, Cherokee, Lake View, Webster City, Marshalltown, Cedar Rapids, Anamosa and Clinton.
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    RaccoonRiverValleyTrail.org is your online guide to a 56-mile-long paved trail along the branches of the beautiful Raccoon River through Greene, Guthrie and Dallas Counties.

    You will experience the communities of Jefferson, Cooper, Herndon, Yale, Panora, Linden, Redfield, Adel and Waukee. And, going east, the RRVT connects with the extensive trail system in Iowa’s capital city of Des Moines

    Thus, your trail experience will take you from a very vibrant metropolitan area out into some great small towns, which are located in one of the most productive agricultural regions of the world. Along your way you’ll find the food, beverages, entertainment, scenery, accommodations and ambience that will make every visit to the RRVT a memorable one.

    We expect to be adding a 33-mile-long “North Loop,” with much of the work happening in 2011 and 2012. That will include the communities of Dallas Center, Minburn, Perry, Dawson and Jamaica.

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