TRIRI, Tour of Rural Indiana, was my first tour. It's a tour of Indiana State Parks. They do a summer tour and a fall tour. Depending on the park you have a choice of camping or staying in one of the state park lodges. One of the things I like is they serve you breakfast and dinner.

The fall tour goes to parks that have lodging so if you prefer to stay in a state park lodge you have that option.

There can be some long days, you can't move the parks, and Indiana is hilly. Short hills but lots of them. Northern Indiana is a lot flatter than southeast and southern Indiana.

The organizers are sponsored through Bloomington Cycle Club and they are great. I've done 4 summer tours and 1 fall tour.

If possible the organizers arrange little side tours. One year we went to an old car museum another timewe went to a cat (tigers, lions, etc.) rescue center. They make a point of pointing out local things of interest. In southern Indiana we rode a train, with our bikes, to cut out the worst of the hills.

So far it's been the best organized and friendlest tour I've done.

Fall TRIRI is in Sept.