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Don Williams County Park is a park in Boone County, Iowa, north of Ogden. It surrounds Don Williams Reservoir, which flooded during the construction of a dam. It is 600 acres and includes a 150-acre lake. The campground is open from April 15 to October 15. The park is also the headquarters for Boone County Conservation.
Comprises shoreline on the southernmost glacial lake in Iowa. Brushy Creek State Recreation Area: Webster County: Lehigh: 6,500 2,600 [7] Des Moines River, Brushy Creek Reservoir: Forms one of the state's largest public outdoor recreation properties, with a 690-acre (280 ha) reservoir. Cedar Rock State Park: Buchanan County: Quasqueton: 423 171 ...
The 'Parks Bureau' operates and maintains 84 parks and recreation areas with trails and cabins for camping, picnicking, swimming, boating and fishing. [20] It is responsible for more than 90 state preserves set aside for their natural or cultural significance and supervises programs in recreation planning and resource protection.
The state park, located on a peninsula that is along part of Rathbun Lake's shore, has a width of 828 acres. [2] A campground is within the park that has 149 camping spots with some of these spots having electricity. [3] There are other activities which include hiking on a nature trail, snowmobiling, and boating.
Activities at county parks include camping, hiking, bicycling, fishing, hunting, canoeing, kayaking, horseback riding, environmental education, fossil hunting, and more. Fishing is allowed in public locations along the Cedar River, Flood Creek, Little Cedar River, Rudd Lake, Shell Rock River and Winnebago River. A fishing license is required to ...
[2] the IDNR started a departmental committee in 1994 to create a framework for all Iowa state parks, with Green Valley State Park being chosen as the first one to implement the changes. A 1994 plan by the Natural Resources Conservation Service , private individuals, and park visitors created nine separate areas for management to protect the ...
There are more than 10 miles (16 km) of developed trails around the lake. Trails are marked with points of interest that correspond with trail brochures available at trail heads, the campground and the park office. There is also a 50-mile (80 km) Lake-to-Lake State Park Bike Route connecting Pine Lake and George Wyth Memorial State Parks
Emerson Bay State Recreation Area is a 12-acre (4.9 ha) state recreation area in Dickinson County, Iowa, United States, near the city of Milford.The recreation area is on the western shore of West Okoboji Lake, one of the Iowa Great Lakes, and is one of several state parks and recreation areas in the Great Lakes region.