If you like driving around neighborhoods looking for the best spooky houses, download the FREE Frightmaps app. It’s your guide to finding the best Halloween-decorated houses in your neighborhood. You’ll notice that the app is best in suburban areas and does not have much listed for rural areas – sorry, they only have listed what…
We’re working on building a list of Iowa’s U-Pick Apple Orchards. It’s certainly not a complete list – so let us know who else should be added, which can be done in the comments section or via email to brian . abeling @gmail.com NOTICE: Please contact the orchard ahead of time to confirm their hours…
It’s Land of the Giants, featuring several 12-foot lighted and animated creatures. It is located on personal property, so please stay on the sidewalk or slowly drive by. The owner typically turns the lights and animation on just after sunset and the display is turned off at 9pm. Location: 4908 NW Seventh Street, Ankeny, Iowa…
Here’s a list of Iowa Pumpkin Patches that have NO admission cost. Of course, you’ll pay for your pumpkins and any other products, but there isn’t a gate or admission fee on top of selecting your pumpkins. If you know other pumpkin patches with no gate or admission charges, please add them to the comments…
We put a request for help on the Iowa Road Trip Facebook Page to help identify which Iowa towns have themed sculptures on permanent display – and rounded up a list Iowa towns. In most cases, the sculpture is the same object, but is uniquely designed by a different artist. Typically, the sculptures are scattered…
May 10th, 2024 lived up to all the hype about being the most significant solar storm in decades. Like many of you, had all my cameras and supplies ready to go. The only question was which direction to head. Normally, I head north as that increases your chances of seeing aurora. However, the forecast was…
Ok, I realize it wasn’t an Iowa Road Trip, but I’ve been asked if I captured anything from the solar eclipse, which ended up being a road trip to Perryville, Missouri. Here’s a few quick photos from our trip.
It’s the self-proclaimed, “Greatest Show on Dirt” where players are dressed in the 1919 Chicago White Sox uniforms and enter the Field of Dreams coming through the cornfield. For one hour, they provide a Harlem Globetrotter-like show, as well as carry forward a family-friendly message. The events are technically known as “Ghost Saturdays”. When are…
We recently asked our Iowa Road Trip followers to share their favorite Iowa Road Trips from 2023 – and here are some of the responses we received.
We recently listed our most popular blog posts of 2023 – but the most popular Iowa Road Trip Facebook posts are quite different from the blog posts. Of the top 10 FB posts, two of the top posts (#6 and #7) are the same subject: Winter Wonderland in Le Mars, Iowa. Although they are the…