After we left Spirit Lake area of Iowa we headed north into Minnesota. It was a short drive as Minnesota was up the road from our campsite about 3 miles at the most. We drove west on the interstate in southern MN to a small town of 269 people called Peterson. They have a small city campground that is very nice and we were the only ones in the campground for about 3 days. They have full hookups at the campground and there is 10 sites total. We had intended on driving across the northen part of Iowa on the back roads but we had so many bad roads across the eastern part we decided to stick to the interstate across southern MN. We lost the bike seat and stem off of Barbs bike heading into Spirit Lake due to the rough roads and had a tough time finding a replacement so we decided to play it safe.
The bike trail that runs along the Root River in southern MN was right behind our camper in Peterson so it was easy to get on and off the bike trail.
On the first day we road our bikes to the city of Rushford going west from Peterson. It is a nice town and we ran around town on the bikes and we started noticing a lot of construction around the town on the houses. Then we noticed that a lot of the houses also had paint markings on them near the front doors with dates and times marked on the siding. We road back over to the museum and found out that the previous august they had a flood in town that had flooded every single business in town along with all the houses in one certain area. The creek that ran on the NE side of town had ran over the dikes that had been put there back in the 1960's and flooded the low end of the city. The city had really done a good job of cleaning up tho, as you could not see water marks on hardly anything in the downtown area.
Everyone was working hard on rebuilding everything they could and it looked like they were doing a great job of it. We headed back to Peterson and road our bikes around the small town to look at the sites and finished our day with about 14 or 15 miles of total riding. The countryside in this area was very nice, mostly wooded with lots of hardwoods.
The bike trail that runs along the Root River in southern MN was right behind our camper in Peterson so it was easy to get on and off the bike trail.
On the first day we road our bikes to the city of Rushford going west from Peterson. It is a nice town and we ran around town on the bikes and we started noticing a lot of construction around the town on the houses. Then we noticed that a lot of the houses also had paint markings on them near the front doors with dates and times marked on the siding. We road back over to the museum and found out that the previous august they had a flood in town that had flooded every single business in town along with all the houses in one certain area. The creek that ran on the NE side of town had ran over the dikes that had been put there back in the 1960's and flooded the low end of the city. The city had really done a good job of cleaning up tho, as you could not see water marks on hardly anything in the downtown area.
Everyone was working hard on rebuilding everything they could and it looked like they were doing a great job of it. We headed back to Peterson and road our bikes around the small town to look at the sites and finished our day with about 14 or 15 miles of total riding. The countryside in this area was very nice, mostly wooded with lots of hardwoods.
The small towns in this area are very interesting to visit, with small museums that give you a history of the area and towns. Peterson MN looks like a retirement community as there is not much there for jobs, no gas station, grocery store or even a convenience store. You need to go to one of the other towns nearby for all the necessary items.
We really enjoyed our quiet little campground that we had all to ourselves for 3 nites.
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