Bicycling in the Midwest, where to take your bike on vacation in the homeland of the rails-to-trails movement

As a means to explore, biking is slow enough to expose riders to things they’d miss by car but covers enough ground to keep the adventure from stalling.The birthplace of the rails-to-trails movement, the Midwest offers numerous diverting trails. Built on abandoned railways largely using crushed stone, these routes tend to be flat, attracting both recreationalists — riding gravel, mountain or hybrid rather than road bikes — and those fit enough to do 100-mile “century” spins.The nonprofit Rails T...