(Atlantic, Iowa) – Bicyclists on RAGBRAI leave Red Oak today (Monday) on their slightly more than 40-mile trip to Atlantic as their next stop-over community. The ride features an elevation of 1,702-feet, 3.7-miles of gravel road options, and a concert tonight in Atlantic, from “The Pork Tornadoes.”

As they make their way from Red Oak on Day 2 of the excursion to across Iowa, RAGBRAI riders will pass through the towns of Elliott, Griswold – which serves as a meeting town – and Lewis, where they might want to check out the Hitchcock House, a national landmark known for its role in the Underground Railroad as a safe house for enslaved people traveling to Canada for freedom.

In Atlantic, they’ll come to know the Coca-Cola Capital of Iowa, the city that hosts the second-largest Coca-Cola Convention in the U.S. every fall, second-only to Atlanta, GA. Atlantic once had a Coca-Cola museum, but that closed during Covid, in the Spring of 2021.

On Tuesday, the RAGBRAI riders will make their way 82-miles to their next stop-over town: Winterset. Along the way they will pass through Wiota, Cumberland, Massena, Fontanelle, Greenfield – Meeting Town, Orient  and Macksburg.