Benefit Concert, Sunday October 18, 2009
Riceville High School, 6:15pm

Acclaimed artist, John McCutcheon will present a benefit concert for our trail. For all the details, click on the the poster on the left for a full size copy.  See you all there to help us in our   FUNDRAISING MODE! 

We must raise $560,000 to match the $1.3 million in grants already received in order to finish paving the last few miles of the present18 miles of trail and then to extend it southward toward the rest of the Iowa free trail system.  If anyone has ideas or would like to donate, please call 1-641-985-2621.

The Wapsi-Great Western Line Trail was founded in 1990 - ten years after the Chicago Great Western Railroad ran its last trains through the area. The railroad bed, upon which much of the 18 mile trail is built, runs along the headwaters of the storied Wapsipinicon River. You will ride or walk past a lake and through prairie, farmland, forests and marshland to the Minnesota border. The trailhead is in the charming rural community of Riceville, Iowa (featured in the Smithsonian Magazine) just West of US 63 on IA Hwy 9. You will also pass Amish and Mennonite farms and communities and giant wind turbines.

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