Winter Wonderland is a holiday lights display located on private property on the west edge of LeMars, Iowa at 629 Plymouth St SW. It’s filled with thousands of lights, glow molds, inflatables, and arched walkways – and even though it is on private property, visitors are welcome to use the lighted walkways to visit and…
NOTE: As of 2024, Christmas Acres is no longer running. It was a beautiful run and we thank the Scheiltler family for their many years of work that brought us many great smiles. I’m leaving the page up and running so that folks can see what they missed, as it was a true passion project…
The town of LeMars, Iowa has the ultimate ice cream cone scavenger hunt with 56 decorated ice cream cones! Le Mars is known as the Ice Cream Capital of the World, as they are the world’s largest manufacturer of ice cream in one location. Keeping with this theme, the town implemented a public art project…
As I’m driving down a gravel road through the Loess Hills of Plymouth County, I ran across this metal person driving his tractor and plow. Thanks to Donald Williams who added to our comments… ” My father Paul Williams of Merrill, Iowa made the “cowboy” .. 30 some years ago from old scoop shovels and…
As you drive on Highway 12 north into the town of Akron in northwest Iowa, you’ll spot a large stegosaurus painted green, red, and white. It was built by Dr. Sterling Stewart and Robert Shockley, both professors at Western Iowa Tech in Sioux City, Iowa back in the late 1970s. Does the Stegosaurus have a…
The Five Ridge Prairie Cabin has been on my list of places to check out and my wife and I were recently heading back to Des Moines after visiting our daughter in South Dakota, so we made time to stop. We didn’t stay overnight but instead stopped just to take the hike up to the…