You'll travel through Lerna (stop at the world's fastest pop machine!) and Toledo. Stop at the Casey's General Store in Toledo for refreshment or save yourself for lunch in Greenup (options include Candy Kitchen, Dairy Queen, Subway.) Use caution on the Burma Road (CR 1200E), where you may encounter more car/truck traffic. The route currently (July 2012) has a short stretch of gravel near the intersection of Lincoln Log Cabin Rd. and CR 700N (just north of Route 121), but you can walk those few yards if you need to. Click here to download a 3-page map.

This route uses the newly constructed surface of CR 1000N in Coles County (be sure you are visible and use caution.) You'll need a minimum of three water bottles for this trip, but the kind folks at Walnut Grove Church have allowed us to fill bottles from a hydrant on their property. (An alternative is to divert west for one mile at Tuscola and go to the 24-hour gas station, but it requires riding on the shoulder of a sometimes very busy Highway 36, and I'd recommend avoiding that.)

Once in Urbana, you can take a route across town to the Amtrak station and take the train back home. Click here to download a 7-page PDF map which illustrates the route to Urbana. This map shows how to get to the Amtrak station from the south side of town (via Race, Pennsylvania, 4th Street, Gregory, 1st Street, Logan, and finally Market, where the station is located.) Or you can choose your own route by consulting this detailed bike map of Champaign-Urbana.