A Traveler's Experience
stejon on April 17, 2006Great River Road (AR, IL, IA, KY, LA, MN, MS, MO, TN, WI)
My friends and I did a Headwaters of the Mississippi and the Great River Road ride last year. We were greatly impressed with the headwaters and the scenic drives from there all the way to Prairie Du Chien. The food stops were entertaining and the scenery unforgettable. It took us two full days of motorcycling to cover just the beginning of the Great River. We plan to continue from our starting point to as far as time allows.
What Others Have Said
riverroadwoman on October 14, 2010 (traveled on August 24, 2010)I am a travel photographer and writer working on a book about life along the Mississippi Great River Road. I am currently on a 90-day journey from the headwaters at Itasca to the Gulf...
chaz11 on April 8, 2008 (traveled on March 8, 2008)Visited the village of Ste. Genevieve, MO.
Top_Down_PT_Over_The_Pass on February 4, 2008 (traveled on October 2, 2007)We traveled The Great River Road from Minneapolis, Minnesota to LaCrosse, Wisconsin on a cool, misty day with intermittent rain. Old Man River didn't care about the weather; there...
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