Additional Parking and Camping information for Guttenberg
Long-term parking will be provided in Guttenberg 2 blocks from the dip site. The area will
be patrolled by the local police department on a regular basis. Please complete the
Long-Term Parking Form and email it back to the email address on the bottom of the form
by June 15. Unregistered vehicles will be directed to the side, processed when time
allows and charged more. A confirmation, parking pass and tickets for any selected prepay items will be returned to you by July 1. The long term parking lot will be open from
Friday noon – 10 pm and again Saturday 4 am 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 will entail
shuttling folks in and out.
Friday evening: Showers and a Spaghetti Dinner are offered at the school just 1 block away and The
Eagles Club has a chicken/fish fry meal that evening….the shuttle will take you. We also have
entertainment and a beverage garden planned for Friday “Parking Weekend”
On 7/18: Shuttles will run between parking, camping, showers, swimming pool, The Eagles Club meal
site and other businesses from Friday noon to 10pm and will start back up at 5am Saturday morning
On 7/26: Shuttles will run 9am-5pm between parking and shower sites, the swimming pool and locations
where team buses will be plan-parked.
Note: 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.
On July 18 when you arrive to park your passenger vehicles, 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 St. Turn left and follow Koerner a block down to the parking.
If you have permission from a resident to park near their residence, you must 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.
Club/Teams: Please complete the Club/Team Parking Request and return NLT June 15 to request
parking assistance for large vehicles at the end of RAGBRAI on Saturday, July 26. We will contact you
with parking assignment and location by July 1. Please consider if you have to be in the south
Guttenberg “Crazy Zone” – we’ll work hard to find a location where teams large and small can relax and
meet up while avoiding the traffic tie-ups that are expected in that really busy area.
 Teams that get routed to South Bluff Street – please park team vehicles curbside only on the east
side of the street. Most of the residential homes are on the west side – parking on just the east side
will enable them to get in and out of their driveways.
 Meuser Lumber Co has generously provided space for long-term parking and a portion of the July 26
team bus parking. Meuser’s IS open on Saturday until noon. Please respect that and park only in
the areas designated by Guttenberg RAGBRAI so they can conduct business that day.
Camping: the campgrounds will be 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 morning.