Bicycle Vacation Guide Minnesota and Wisconsin [Paperback]

Doug Shidell (Author), Brent Campbell (Editor), Mike Wohnoutka (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2008

Bicycle Vacation Guide will take you from dreaming about your next bicycle vacation through every stage of planning the trip to loading up the bikes and riding the trails.

With over 180 photos and 50 maps, this is the most attractive edition of the book ever. It's packed full of information like lodging, festivals and events, and alternate attractions.

It also has information dear to every bicyclists heart- or should we say stomach? Bicycle Vacation Guide now has restaurant listings for every trail town. The listings cover eateries from brew pubs to family dining and breakfast joints to elegant meals. Our preference is for the local spot that makes each trail-town unique, so you won't find fast food on the menu.

Bicycle Vacation Guide focuses on the trails worth taking a weekend to explore. It features 28 trails in Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. Clear directions and helpful maps get you to the trailhead quickly while the Trail Highlights; feature directs you to the most interesting segments of the trail.

If you enjoy exploring beyond the trail, Bicycle Vacation Guide offers hundreds of miles of quiet country roads.

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About the Author

Doug Shidell has been riding bikes and writing about them since 1970. He has published six touring books about Minnesota and Wisconsin, written numerous newspaper and magazine articles and spoken extensively about bicycle touring and commuting.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Little Transport Press; 4 edition (February 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974662569
• ISBN-13: 978-0974662565
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 7.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #766,983 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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 Awesome guide for planning a day or weekend bike centric trip, January 11, 2011

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Awesome guide for planning a day or weekend bike centric trip. We based on a weekend away along the new 13 mile Gitchi Gami bike trail based on this book (Splitrock, Gooseberry falls etc.) We also spent the day riding from Hopkins, to Excelsior and on to Victoria on the light rail trail because of this book. It provides some food and shopping options along the way. It has great maps and lets you know of the trail conditions and surface type. It really brings together a lot of hard to research extended bike trail info into one well researched book. I think the author Doug Shidell personally researched most trails and points of interest.

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