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Pages in category "Caves of Iowa" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bixby State Preserve; C.
15 Iowa. 16 Kentucky. 17 Maryland. ... 40 Wisconsin. 41 Wyoming. 42 See also. 43 References. ... This is a list of natural caves in the United States. Alabama
Pages in category "Caves of Wisconsin" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Cave of the Mounds;
This is a list of 63 state parks and recreation areas in Iowa. These state parks of the U.S. state of Iowa can be split into two groups based on management. The first group are those state parks managed by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The second group are those state parks managed by the county in which they are found.
Maquoketa Caves State Park is a state park of Iowa, United States, located in Jackson County. It stands northwest of the city of Maquoketa . In 1991 111 acres (45 ha) on the east side of the park were listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places .
Wisconsin became the first state to have a state park in 1878 [1] when it formed "The State Park". The park consisted of 760 square miles (2,000 km 2) in northern Wisconsin (most of present-day Vilas County). [2] The state owned 50,631 acres (205 km 2), which was less than 10% of the total area. [2] There were few residents in the area.
Lidar-derived image of Marching Bears Mound Group, Effigy Mounds National Monument.. Prehistoric earthworks by mound builder cultures are common in the Midwest.However, mounds in the shape of mammals, birds, or reptiles, known as effigies, apparently were constructed primarily by peoples in what is now known as southern Wisconsin, northeast Iowa, and small parts of Minnesota and Illinois.
The Chicago Academy of Sciences considers the Cave of the Mounds to be "the significant cave of the upper Midwest" because of its beauty, [1] and it is promoted as the "jewel box" of major American caves. [1] In 1987, the United States Department of the Interior and the National Park Service designated the cave as a National Natural Landmark. [2]