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Snake Alley consists of five half-curves and two quarter-curves over a distance of 275 feet (83.8 m), rising 58.3 ft (17.8 m), a 21% grade, from Washington Street to Columbia. The street is the site of an annual uphill bike race, the Snake Alley Criterium.
It is centered on Snake Alley, a 275-foot (84 m) brick roadway built in 1894 that rises 58.3 feet (18 m) from Washington Street to Columbia Street. [2] The alley receives its name from the five half curves and two quarter curves that climb the hill. Cobblestone Alley is the eastern boundary of the district.
A one-block-long climb is on the historic brick street named Snake Alley. The 276-foot-long Snake Alley has five switchbacks in a 60-foot climb. The average grade is 12.5 percent in that one block. Burlington has been the finishing point for RAGBRAI twice. the annual bicycle ride that starts at the Missouri River in western Iowa and ends in ...
Diamondback water snake: Nerodia rhombifer: Threatened Eastern hognose snake: Heterodon platirhinos: Graham's crayfish snake: Regina grahamii: Lined snake: Tropidoclonion lineatum: Massasauga rattlesnake: Sistrurus catenatus: Endangered Milk snake: Lampropeltis triangulum: Northern water snake: Nerodia sipedon: Plains garter snake: Thamnophis ...
Snake Alley may refer to: Snake Alley (Burlington, Iowa), a sinuous street in Iowa, US Snake Alley Criterium, an annual bicycle race in Burlington; Snake Alley Historic District, a largely residential area in Burlington; Snake Alley (Taipei), a market in Taipei, Taiwan "Snake Alley", a track on the 1985 album Decode Yourself by Ronald Shannon ...
A new snake species, the northern green anaconda, sits on a riverbank in the Amazon's Orinoco basin. “The size of these magnificent creatures was incredible," Fry said in a news release earlier ...
This is a list of mammals of Iowa. The list includes species native to the U.S. state of Iowa and introduced into the state. It also includes mammals currently extirpated in the state.
The 55th annual Snake Alley Art Fair is coming up June 19. Artists are invited to apply for a chance to show their work at the festival, which will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.