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Stone State Park is a state park in Iowa, United States, located in the bluffs and ravines adjacent to the Big Sioux River.The park is located on the northwestern edge of Sioux City and consists of 1,069 acres (433 ha) in Woodbury and Plymouth Counties, and overlooks the South Dakota-Iowa border.
Iowa: Private One of the few essentially natural glacial pothole lakes remaining in Iowa. Cayler Prairie: 1965: Dickinson: State An example of the increasingly rare virgin prairie grassland. Cold Water Cave: 1987
This excerpt from the Lewis and Clark map of 1814 shows the rivers of western Iowa and eastern South Dakota. The Coteau des Prairies is seen near the upper center of the map, "High land covered with wood called mountain of the prairie."
South Dakota State Parks and recreation areas range in size from the 19-acre Sandy Shore Recreation Area to the 71,000-acre Custer State Park. It was the first park established in the system, in 1919. Good Earth State Park at Blood Run is the most recent park, added in 2013. System-wide visitation in 2016 was 7,500,000. [1]
Gitchie Manitou is a small (91 acre) nature preserve in Lyon County, in the extreme northwestern corner of Iowa just northwest of Granite, Iowa, or just southeast of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. This natural prairie preserve is noted for its ancient Native American burial mounds and precambrian Sioux Quartzite outcroppings, which are about 1.6 ...
Abuts the south shore of 3,643-acre (1,474 ha) Clear Lake. Dolliver Memorial State Park: Webster County: Lehigh: 600 240 [9] 1925: Des Moines River: Showcases tall river bluffs and narrow ravines. Elinor Bedell State Park: Dickinson County: Spirit Lake: 80 32: 1998: East Okoboji Lake: Provides public access to one of the Iowa Great Lakes. Elk ...
South Dakota also contains numerous state parks, all of which are managed by the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and Parks. Custer State Park in the Black Hills is a large state park with over 71,000 acres, and includes Sylvan Lake , Needles Highway , and a wildlife loop featuring a large bison herd and the "begging burros", [ 65 ] among ...