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Raccoon River Valley Trail Association

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Cooper, IA 50059 | 515-386-5488

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Dallas • Guthrie • Greene Counties in Iowa

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Colorado Cyclists on RRVT Trail
With word spreading about the completion of the new “north loop” of the Raccoon River Valley Trail, bicyclists have already started visiting from all over. We met this group from Greeley, Colorado, on Thursday when they were taking a break on the RRVT in the town of Minburn. They were spending four days riding the RRVT and the neighboring High Trestle Trail, while staying a couple of the nights at the Hotel Pattee in Perry and another night at the Old Lincolnway Hotel at the trailhead in Jefferson. They were eating at restaurants in trail towns, too. The group of friends, now mostly retired, said that in the past eight to 10 years, they’ve taken several trips together to ride trails in many locations around the U.S., and they gave high marks to the RRVT. Left to right are Larry Jenkins, Karen Giebler, Jerry Akers, Jo Akers, Ralph Jenkins, Cathy Lasell, Gale Giebler and Bonny McNerney. The Akers couple live in Ankeny, and joined the Colorado group on the trail ride because Jerry Akers is the brother of Ruth Jenkins. Meanwhile, Karen Giebler had a message for us: “You should write a nice story about the co-op elevator right over there,” she said, pointing to the Heartland Co-Op Elevator office in Minburn. “They were really nice to us, letting us come right in and use the bathroom.”
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  • Welcome

    RaccoonRiverValleyTrail.org is your online guide to an 89-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, Waukee, Dallas Center, Minburn, Perry, Dawson and Jamaica. And, going east from Waukee, 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.

    In late 2012 and early 2013, we are completing a new 33-mile-long “north loop,” to bring our total mileage up to 89 from the original 56. Beginning in the spring of 2013, we plan to have a season-long slate of “grand opening” events to celebrate. We are already proclaiming the RRVT’s new status as one of the longest paved trails in the United States, and one that has the longest interior loop on a trail in the nation at 72 miles.

    All that is why we believe the RRVT has become “one of America’s best recreational trails.”
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