More than 3500 miles of new bike paths were added in 2024 in Kansas, Indiana and Missouri. part of an ongoing expansion to the United States Bicycle Route System.

The route: Map it out The Chicago Botanical Garden ... Ochs Archives/Getty Images Why we love it: Northwest Indiana has some great bike trails that a lot of Chicagoans never see.

The expanded trails also will let people take the South Shore Line and hop on a bike to get out to Lake Michigan or the Indiana Dunes National ... We still need to map out all of that so we ...