RAGBRAI®, with support from the 2021 communities, will host the 48th annual bicycle ride across Iowa July 25-31, with Le Mars the starting point of the seven day, 426-mile ride across Iowa.
The town is expected to host thousands of riders and support people before the start of the ride.
“Our towns and host communities have been instrumental in getting us to today,” Dieter Drake, RAGBRAI ride director said Tuesday in a press release. “We have five months of planning still and together we’ll finally have the 48th RAGBRAI. We couldn’t be more excited to work with them to bring this great Iowa tradition back in July.”
“Le Mars is excited to kick off RAGBRAI as the first town on July 25,” said Mitch Christoffel on behalf of the Le Mars RAGBRAI committee.