Chicago to Cairo Illinois cue sheet

Hey gang...does anybody have a chi to cairo cue sheet they'd be willing to share with me?

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Permalink Reply by mark stetson on February 14, 2015 at 11:59pm

You might consider linking together others routes gleaned from mapmyride and ridewithgps. My experience is that rwgps's search function works much better than mmr's. I searched within 50 miles of Cairo for rides of 80 miles and up and came up with this route up to Mt. Vernon.

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1417156

I'm sure searching for rides of shorter distances would provide other options.

I've had some luck contacting mappers directly for local riding information. I'll search rides starting in a given town and contact a rider who's mapped several rides in the area and obviously knows the area. Sometimes I'll map a ride and ask them to have a look and see what they think of it rather than ask them to do the mapping.

I've also had good luck mapping unknown areas with the help of IDOT cycling maps. You can download them for each county or order the print versions. They are graded for cycling taking into account traffic volume and surface.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Schwab on February 15, 2015 at 5:30am

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Chicago,+IL/Cairo,+IL/ suggests 3 different routes

http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#7/-89.19674/39.84423/blue/bike Shows roads used by affluent bicycle riders, often for recreational rides.

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Permalink Reply by Bill W. on February 15, 2015 at 11:57am

Brilliant Mark!
mark stetson said:

You might consider linking together others routes gleaned from mapmyride and ridewithgps. My experience is that rwgps's search function works much better than mmr's. I searched within 50 miles of Cairo for rides of 80 miles and up and came up with this route up to Mt. Vernon.

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1417156

I'm sure searching for rides of shorter distances would provide other options.

I've had some luck contacting mappers directly for local riding information. I'll search rides starting in a given town and contact a rider who's mapped several rides in the area and obviously knows the area. Sometimes I'll map a ride and ask them to have a look and see what they think of it rather than ask them to do the mapping.

I've also had good luck mapping unknown areas with the help of IDOT cycling maps. You can download them for each county or order the print versions. They are graded for cycling taking into account traffic volume and surface.

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Permalink Reply by Bill W. on February 15, 2015 at 11:58am

Nice! Thanks Mike.

Mike Schwab said:

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Chicago,+IL/Cairo,+IL/ suggests 3 different routes

http://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#7/-89.19674/39.84423/blue/bike Shows roads used by affluent bicycle riders, often for recreational rides.