Here's your opportunity to join us on a development tour! The tour price is discounted a good bit because it's our first time out onto the entire Mesabi Trail. This is still a fully supported tour, complete with 5 nights of lodging, a sag ride from Grand Rapids (our gathering spot and tour end) to Ely (where the cycling starts), plus mapping, daily sag lunch, most breakfasts, and supper on arrival day!

Arrive on your schedule, maybe in time for a self-guided ride around town, but please be in by 5 p.m. for group orientation, refreshments and tour dinner. We'll load your bikes into our sag truck in preparation for an early morning departure to Ely.

We'll sag across to Bear Head State Park near Ely, and deliver the group about 11 a.m. for optional canoe or kayak rides at the state park. Close out the afternoon with a short bike ride into Ely, about 20 miles.

We depart Ely on our bikes and head west on the Mesabi Trail to our lunch stop near the Soudan Mine. Our activity includes the mine tour, 2,400' under ground in the Soudan Mine! We'll finish the day with a short ride to our hotel.

This is a fun ride day on the Mesabi Trail! You'll ride across perhaps the longest aluminum bridge over a bog on our way to Giant's Ridge Ski area. This ride has some of the most picturesque rail trail you'll find anywhere! We finish the day riding into Virginia and crossing the highest road bridge in Minnesota where the highway crosses an old open mine.

Our shortest day of the tour, proving why this is a development tour event! We have suggestions pending on adding events to make this more than just 33 miles on the paved Mesabi Trail between towns.

Our ride today is pushing 50 miles on return to Grand Rapids, where the tour ends just after lunch. Thanks for joining us!