Gandy Dancer Trail – Minnesota

Gandy Dancer rail-trail. St Croix Falls, Wisconsin. August 2004. The maintained portion of the Gandy Dancer runs between St Croix Falls and Danbury. We stayed in Osceola a few miles south of St Croix Falls at the River Valley Inn & Suites (there is lodging in St Croix Falls and also in nearby Taylor Falls, Mn).
We started our ride in St Croix Falls at the trail head by the KFC on I-35 (you can also start at the visitors center). My parents accompanied us on this trip and shuttled our truck to Danbury.
This was a 50 mile ride with a nice smooth crushed limestone surface and no more than 10 miles between towns which I believe all had food and shopping. It rained off and on the whole ride.
Our intent was to ride the full 100 miles of the trail over 2 days but the latter half of the trail isn’t maintained and was muddy from the rain so we skipped it. On this trip we also rode the Paul Bunyan trail in Wisconsin.