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Discover a hidden multi-use trail in Iowa you have to check out

Iowa is a wide-open state, and that means it’s full of great parks and forests that provide many opportunities for hikers to ...
Park Ranger John on MSN

Discover the national parks in Iowa

Many websites online claim there are 4 National Park Sites in the Hawkeye State. The truth is that there are only 2 Nat ...
Des Moines Register

Peak camping season started. What's new at Iowa's state parks?

The beginning of May marks the start of peak camping season in Iowa, and many of the state parks have made updates for this summer season. There are more than 4,400 campsites across Iowa's state parks ...
The Gazette

Will Iowa’s state parks be less safe without rangers? Depends who you ask

A view into the forest is seen from a cave at Backbone State Park near Dundee, 60 miles north of Cedar Rapids. The park was dedicated in May 1920 as the first of Iowa's state parks. Backbone has 21 ...
The Gazette

Iowa’s state parks need $100M in infrastructure repairs

Marv Feigenspan enjoys a birthday trip Wednesday to the Lake Macbride State Park fishing pier near Solon. This pier, with a paved entrance and wide, open space, was noted by Iowa Department of Natural ...
Iowa Public Radio

Iowa's state parks are in need of over $100 million in repairs

Iowa is home to 69 state parks. On this episode of Talk of Iowa, we'll review the challenges Iowa's state parks are facing — the budgets has remained flat, creating issues with upkeep and support ...
Yahoo

Want to spend Memorial Day 2025 at an Iowa state park? These 3 rank best for a barbecue.

What better way to celebrate Memorial Day Weekend than barbecuing at a state park? Gunther Volvo Cars Delray Beach surveyed just over 3,000 families to find out where the best parks are across the ...
Radio Iowa

Volunteers are needed to help get Iowa parks shipshape

Fifteen of Iowa’s state parks are holding spruce-up events later this month and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources is asking Iowans to consider lending a hand. Andy Bartlett, park manager at ...
Radio Iowa

Addressing accessibility in Iowa’s state parks

A House panel has voted to set aside a quarter of a million dollars for projects that make Iowa’s state parks more accessible to visitors with disabilities. Republican Representative Norlin Mommsen of ...
ABC Kcrg 9

Iowa lawmakers pass bill to make state parks more accessible for people with disabilities

DES MOINES, Iowa (Gray Television Iowa Capitol Bureau) - A bill is now headed to Governor Kim Reynolds’ desk that could make Iowa’s state parks more accessible for people with disabilities. If ...
KCCI Des Moines

New law directs the Iowa DNR to make parks more accessible

IOWA’S NEWS LEADER. IOWA’S PARKS ARE ABOUT TO GET MORE ACCESSIBLE TODAY. THE GOVERNOR SIGNED A LAW REQUIRING THE IOWA DNR TO RESEARCH AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH ...