People using the Raccoon River Valley Trail almost all enjoy it when the trail passes right next to a grain elevator because there’s always something interesting happening around the big agricultural installations. Here, at the West Central Cooperative in Dawson, a pile of hundreds of thousands of bushels of corn is shown very near the new North Loop of the RRVT being paved from Dawson east toward Perry, and that six-mile stretch of the trail should be open at the end of May. The corn, from last fall’s harvest, was covered with tarps through the winter months, but is now uncovered and being hauled to market. Other large grain elevators are located trailside, or very close, in the towns of Redfield, Linden, Panora, Yale, Jefferson, Minburn and Dallas Center. We’ve always said one of the unique features of the RRVT is that users can go by trail from the largest city in Iowa out into one of the richest agricultural areas in the world.

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