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The National Motorcycle Museum was a non-profit museum located in Anamosa, Iowa.It was founded in 1989 by motorcycle builders, racers, and riders. Its purpose to maintain the experience of bikes past and present as well as motorcycle memorabilia, documents and actual vintage bikes from as far back as 1903.
3. Bandera, Texas. Nicknamed the "Cowboy Capital of the World," this Wild West town in southern Texas was a staging ground for the last cattle drives of the 1800s.
Billed as the West Coast's largest Polar Bear event for motorcyclists [34] Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge: Key West, Florida–Homer, Alaska: 600 (2010) 2010 Jim and Beth Durham Long-distance rally: Bike Fest Cottage Grove, Oregon: 400 (2008)–700 (2009) [35] [36] 2005 (disestablished 2014) [36] [37] STAR Touring and Riding Association chapter ...
Over the last five years, 74% of people who died on a motorcycle were not wearing a helmet. ... In 2023, 63 people were killed in motorcycle crashes in Iowa and 11 have been killed so far in 2024 ...
Simplified map of Iowa Bedrock formations of Iowa. The geography of Iowa includes the study of bedrock, landforms, rivers, geology, paleontology and urbanisation of the U.S. state of Iowa. The state covers an area of 56,272.81 sq mi (145,746 km 2).
There is a dearth of natural areas in Iowa; less than 1% of the tallgrass prairie that once covered most of Iowa remain intact, only about 5% of the state's prairie pothole wetlands remain, and most of the original forest has been lost. [6] Iowa ranks 49th of U.S. states in public land holdings. [7]
The 8,362-acre (3,384 ha) refuge (46% in Iowa, 54% in Nebraska) preserves an area that would have been otherwise lost to cultivation. In 1960, an Army Corps of Engineers channelization project on the Missouri River moved the main river channel in the area to the west. The former river channel became DeSoto Lake, a seven-mile long oxbow lake. As ...
With an area encompassing over 6,000 acres (24 km 2), the facility is one of Iowa's largest public outdoor recreation areas. A relatively new recreational area, Brushy Creek did not have an easy beginning. In 1967, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources published a controversial proposal to flood Brushy Creek's forested canyon.