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Additional Parking and Camping information for Guttenberg
There are several options for long-term parking: South Parking for standard-sized vehicles only is going to be within walking distance from the dip-site; Lakeside parking, the largest and only lot able to accommodate larger, non-standard vehicles is 3 miles north of the dip-site and two smaller lots, also standard-sized vehicles only are near St. Mary’s Church ½ mile from the dip-site.
Vehicles that have not registered and just show up will be directed to the side, processed when time allows and charged more.
All parking lots will be open from Friday, July 18, 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. and again Saturday, July 19, 5 a.m. until the buses are gone. If you need long term parking and expect to arrive outside these hours, please contact us to make other arrangements.
Please register – we will have enough parking arranged for the registered vehicles – if we have a ton of unregistered vehicles that just show up, they’ll be parked a couple of miles out of town and we may be unable to facilitate shuttles back into town.
Guttenberg is small – we will be identifying streets for 1-way traffic and working with residents to keep streets clear. We don’t have many areas unaffected by RAGBRAI; therefore cars left on any street more than 24 hours will be ticketed and towed – please register and plan to park in the designated area.
If you have permission from a resident to park near their residence, place a paper on the dash with the resident’s address, name and phone number on it and leave the keys with the resident in case the vehicle should need to be moved. Only passenger vehicles can be parked near residences.
One all-new parking option being offered by RAGBRAI is car transport from western Iowa to Guttenberg. If you’d like to park in Orange City and have your car brought to Guttenberg during the weeklong ride find the details at https://www.mrcarshipper.com/ragbrai
Parking Lot Directions:
Shuttles:
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Club Teams:
Camping:
Additional Parking and Camping information for Guttenberg
There are several options for long-term parking: South Parking for standard-sized vehicles only is going to be within walking distance from the dip-site; Lakeside parking, the largest and only lot able to accommodate larger, non-standard vehicles is 3 miles north of the dip-site and two smaller lots, also standard-sized vehicles only are near St. Mary’s Church ½ mile from the dip-site.
- IF YOU ARE WITH BRANCEL CHARTER, CHOOSE THE SOUTH PARKING LOCATION. If you are bringing a non-standard size vehicle, you’ll have to purchase two spots or park in the North Lakeside Parking area and use the shuttles.
- IF YOU ARE WITH PORK BELLY CHARTER, CHOOSE THE NORTH LAKESIDE PARKING LOCATION.
- If you are not with Pork Belly charters, MORE THAN LIKELY, your charter will NOT be near north parking. Some charters will be near camping, others in the south part of town near south parking. If you want to sign up for parking, we’d recommend you choose SOUTH parking…or wait until you get an answer from your charter regarding where to park.
Vehicles that have not registered and just show up will be directed to the side, processed when time allows and charged more.
All parking lots will be open from Friday, July 18, 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. and again Saturday, July 19, 5 a.m. until the buses are gone. If you need long term parking and expect to arrive outside these hours, please contact us to make other arrangements.
Please register – we will have enough parking arranged for the registered vehicles – if we have a ton of unregistered vehicles that just show up, they’ll be parked a couple of miles out of town and we may be unable to facilitate shuttles back into town.
Guttenberg is small – we will be identifying streets for 1-way traffic and working with residents to keep streets clear. We don’t have many areas unaffected by RAGBRAI; therefore cars left on any street more than 24 hours will be ticketed and towed – please register and plan to park in the designated area.
If you have permission from a resident to park near their residence, place a paper on the dash with the resident’s address, name and phone number on it and leave the keys with the resident in case the vehicle should need to be moved. Only passenger vehicles can be parked near residences.
One all-new parking option being offered by RAGBRAI is car transport from western Iowa to Guttenberg. If you’d like to park in Orange City and have your car brought to Guttenberg during the weeklong ride find the details at https://www.mrcarshipper.com/ragbrai
Parking Lot Directions:
- South Parking directions: proceed to the south end of town on Highway 52. Turn east toward the main part of town at Koerner Street. Cross the tracks and the long term parking area will be to your right. If traffic is backed up to Highway 52, you can also turn east at Casey’s and proceed along Dekalb Street – it curves around and meets up with River Park Drive at Koerner Street. Turn left and follow Koerner a block down to the parking.
- North Lakeside Parking directions: If you come in via Highway 52: proceed to the bottom of the north hill on the north end of Guttenberg on Hwy 52. Turn east onto Haydn Street. Cross the railroad tracks and take the first left onto North 3rd Street. Go 6 blocks north to Lakeside Ballroom. You’ll turn left into long term parking at the foot of the flood wall that leads to the north marina. If you see the marina, you went too far. If you come in via the Great River Road: turn left at the north marina (2.7 miles past Abel/Esmann Island). Proceed through the marina and over the flood wall where you’ll turn right into long term parking.
- St. Mary’s Herder Street Parking directions: come into Guttenberg on Highway 52. Turn east on Herder Street (south end of Kwik Star). Turn left into the first alley – Storage buildings and Dollar Store will be on the right. If you are alongside the tracks, you went one alley too far. Or you can turn east on Goethe Street (Autotek) and then take the first right turn into the alley. The St. Mary's Herder lot will be on the west side of the alley.
- St. Mary’s Schiller Street Parking directions: come into Guttenberg on Highway 52. Turn east on Schiller Street (after Bender’s Grocery if coming from south, after Kwik Star if coming from the north), cross the railroad tracks and the St. Mary's Schiller lot will be immediately on the right.
Shuttles:
- On Friday, July 18-Saturday, July 19: Shuttles will run between parking, camping, showers, swimming pool, Highway 52 eateries and other businesses from Friday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and will start back up at 5 a.m. Saturday morning.
- On Saturday, July 26: Shuttles will run 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. between parking areas and showers, swimming pool and locations where team buses will be plan-parked.
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- Friday, July 18: Showers are available at Clayton Ridge High School, 131 S. River Park Dr. from 4-10 p.m. Eagles Club 4114, 1107 S. Highway 52, will be serving Fish & Chicken Fry Dinner for $13 from 4-8 p.m. On the shuttle route. Friends of St. Mary's will be serving a German Dinner of Brats, Kraut, German Potato Salad, Dessert and Pop or Water for $15 from 4-8 p.m. at 3 Goethe St. Sodes Perk Central, 3 Goethe St. will be serving BBQ Ribs, Ear Corn and Baked Potato for $18 with a full bar from 5-9 p.m. Entertainment in the 400 block of South River Park Dr. is planned for the afternoon and evening. Lakeside Ballroom, 1202 N 4th St. will be serving a sandwich dinner for $10 from 4-8p.m.
- Saturday, July 19: Showers are available at Clayton Ridge High School, 131 S. River Park Dr. from 5-8 a.m. Stadium Bar and Grill, 915 S. Highway 52 will be serving a Breakfast Buffet of scrambled eggs, sausage links, ham, hash browns, cinnamon rolls, fruit and coffee from 5-11 a.m. for $13. On the shuttle route. Lakeside Ballroom, 1202 N 4th St. will be serving a Continental Breakfast of sausage and egg or bacon and egg sandwich with orange juice and coffee for $6 from 5-9:30 a.m. Buenie Bottoms will be serving breakfast in the campground from 5-10 a.m. Breakfast burrito of a flour tortilla wrap with sausage, bacon, egg, hash browns and cheese or Croissant with sausage, egg and cheese for $6.
- Friday, July 18 & Saturday, July 19. Rausch's Café Sack Lunches of Ham or Turkey or Vegetable Cheese sandwich with chips, fresh fruit, cookie and water - $12. They will be delivered to Lakeside at noon on Friday and park campgrounds on at 5 a.m. on Saturday and 6 a.m. on Saturday at Lakeside.
- Saturday, July 26. Showers are available at Clayton Ridge High School, 131 S. River Park Drive from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Northern Exposure vendor north of the school.
Club Teams:
- Please complete the Club/Team Parking Request and return NLT June 15 to request parking assistance for your club vehicles on Friday July 18, Saturday July 19 and/or Saturday July 26. IF YOU NEED HELP MORE THAN ONE DAY, please complete and submit a separate form for each. For example, some clubs want to be near camping on the first weekend and near parking on the second weekend. Or if you want to be at the same location both weekends tell us that and the preferred location. We will contact you with parking assignment and location by July 1. We’ll work hard to find a location where teams large and small can relax and meet up while avoiding the traffic tie-ups.
- Meuser Lumber Co. has generously provided space for long-term parking and team bus parking. Meuser’s IS open on Friday all day and Saturday until noon. Please respect that and park only in the areas designated by Guttenberg RAGBRAI so they can conduct business those days.
Camping:
- The main campground is free and is located north of the school and Lock & Dam #10 in River Side Park. There is a grassy area north of the Lock & Dam #10, an ideal location for a smaller group; however, campers must set up outside of the security fence – so if there would be a need, the fences could be closed without having to oust campers. We will be coordinating with clubs/teams and charter buses to bring buses to the camping area and/or move people to their pick up locations Saturday, July 19 morning. Campers are welcome to camp in Guttenberg again on Saturday, July 26 if they’d like to spend a little more time enjoying our city.
- Valleyview Campground just north of Guttenberg off Hwy 52 is offering spots with and without electricity so you can park your RV/Camper there all week there for $250-275.
- Please do NOT set up camp on the Veteran’s Monument. In addition to disrespecting the monument, automatic sprinklers come on in the wee hours and you’ll get a cold shower reminder.
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