Bicycle Vacation Guide Minnesota and Wisconsin

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.

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.