Mesaabi Biking Trail Fills in Last Remaininng Gap

MidwestWeekends July 9-There’s good news for bicycle tourists looking for a new stretch of trail to try.

This week, a troublesome 1½-mile stretch of the Mesabi Trail in northern Minnesota finally was completed between Taconite and Marble, giving riders 74½ nonstop miles of beautiful asphalt.

The rolling trail, which does not follow a rail corridor, takes riders past turquoise mine-pit lakes, through rock cuts and to the door of nearly every Iron Range attraction. For more, see Lodge to Lodge Biking.