Loess Hills Backroads: 167th St in Fremont County.
Overall Rating: 2/5 stars Google map location Length:. 0.7 miles Sidewalls: Only a few sidewalls Hills: Yes S-Curves: No curves at all, this is a…
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Loess Hills Backroads: Jasper Trail in Harrison County, Iowa.
Overall Rating: 1/5 stars Google map location If this is only one star, why did we post it? I’ve decided that I should go ahead…
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Loess Hills Backroads: Saw Mill Hollow in Harrison County, Iowa.
Overall Rating: 2/5 stars Google map location Length: 1.64 miles. Sidewalls: Yes, it has some, but not really the highest sidewalls. Hills: No major hills…
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How to find clusters of monarch butterflies at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge
Wouldn’t you love to see hundreds of monarch butterflies clustered together? It happens all across Iowa every September and some folks are lucky enough to…
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Loess Hills Backroads: Kelsey Avenue in Harrison County, Iowa.
Overall Rating: 3/5 stars Google map location Length: 1.5 miles. Sidewalls: Yes, there are several sections where the sidewalls will tower over your vehicle. Hills:…
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Loess Hills Backroads: Hardin Avenue in Harrison County, Iowa.
Overall Rating: 3/5 stars Google map location Length: 0.7 mile. Although it’s relatively short, it’s a great example of a typical Loess Hills level B…
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The largest barn in Iowa: Stone Barn in Stone City.
While researching, I wasn’t able to find a definitive source that would declare that it was indeed the largest barn in Iowa – but there…
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How Humphrey Parker’s walking stick became the tree in the middle of the road
I received a copy of “The Parker Family Tree: The Parker family of Cass County, Iowa. Its origins and passages” by Mary Rendleman Gilchrist. Congrats…
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Get your selfie with the American Gothic farmer and daughter.
“God Bless America” is a traveling sculpture by Seward Johnson that is inspired by Grant Wood’s painting “American Gothic”. The sculpture has been in the…
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Taste the “Good Stuff” on the Templeton Rye Whiskey Tour
The rural town of Templeton, Iowa has long been known for distilling whiskey. In fact, their mascot used to be the “bootleggers”. A few years…
