Bicycle Vacation Guide, Minnesota and Wisconsin: Minnesota, Wisconsin [Paperback]

Doug Shidell (Author), Vicky Vogels (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2001

The second edition of our popular touring guide to the rail trails and country roads of Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. Includes 25 state trails and low traffic country roads, easy to read color maps, brand new restaurant listing, festivals and events, food, lodging, phone numbers, web sites and contacts for additional information.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

The authors went straight to the bicyclist's heart with the new restaurant listing. You won't find chain restaurants in this listing, but a lot of variety and interesting cuisine. There's a lot of information in here (the book was expanded by 60 pages), so we spent some time arranging it in the most readable format possible. The color maps have also been tweaked and cleaned up. Overall, Bicycle Vacation Guide is packed with information and, if we must say so ourselves, quite a sharp looking book.

From the Author

We researched a number of new trails, but added only the most interesting. The Mesabi Trail in Minnesota's Iron Range is fascinating because it defies most of the standard rules about rail trails. It dips and rolls and winds through back streets of small towns, and it stays close to the mining history of this part of Minnesota. The Lake Wobegon Trail is named after the fictional town in Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion, and the characters and lifestyle are all there big as life. We had a lot of fun updating and adding to Bicycle Vacation Guide.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 98 pages
• Publisher: Little Transport Press; 2nd edition (March 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964123878
• ISBN-13: 978-0964123878
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 7.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,394,923 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #94 in Books > Travel > United States > States > Minnesota

More About the Author

Doug Shidell has ridden over 160,000 miles as a bicyclist since 1970. His riding experience includes touring, racing, commuting and recreational riding. Doug started writing about bicycle touring in 1971 and his first book, Bicycle Escape Routes, a guide to the back roads of Wisconsin, was published in 1975. Since then, he has written bicycle columns for the Star Tribune newspaper of Minneapolis, Silent Sports Magazine and Isthmus of Madison, Wisconsin. He has given talks about bicycle commuting and recreational riding at corporate headquarters for Fortune 500 companies, community events, the Minnesota State Fair and bicycle clubs.

Bicycle Vacation Guide is in its fourth edition and the perennial best selling Twin Cities Bike Map is now in its 10 edition. Doug is also the publisher for the Madison and Dane County Bike Map and the Milwaukee Bike Map.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Begin planning for your cycling excursion!, May 16, 2001

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Now in a fully updated second edition, Doug Shidell and Vicky Vogels' Bicycle Vacation Guide: Minnesota And Wisconsin has everything the adventurous cyclist would want or need to know about biking the trails and byways of two premier upper Midwest states. If you want to go biking anywhere in Minnesota or Wisconsin for fun and healthy exercise, begin planning for your cycling excursion by reading Doug Shidell and Vicky Vogels' Bicycle Vacation Guide!