The old Michigan Road, north from Rochester, Indiana, is a reasonably nice place for a bicycle. U.S. 31 now bypasses the old road, leaving this one good for riding.
This afternoon I made a map showing the route of the old Michigan Road through the entire length of Indiana, from the Madison on the Ohio River, to Michigan City. (If you click on it, you can see the whole thing.)
I got to wondering about a bicycle ride the entire length of it. There are places where it’s probably not the best for riding, and some places where it has been obliterated by an Interstate Highway for several miles. But it looks like there are several places where an old version of the road is probably the less travelled one, and I know from experience that there are places in the northern counties where the new road that has superceded it is ridable. I wouldn’t necessarily insist on riding on the road the entire distance, so long as I could ride near it and cross it now and then to see what it looks like. Whether I’d ride through Indianapolis would be negotiable.
Continuing north of Rochester on the old road for a few miles, one comes to this sign where the road crosses the Tippecanoe River. “Land granted by the Potawatomi Indians” is a an interesting way to put it when you consider how it was done.
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