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Pikes Peak State Park. Pikes Peak State Park is a state park in Clayton County, Iowa, United States, featuring a 500-foot (150 m) bluff overlooking the Upper Mississippi River opposite the confluence of the Wisconsin River. The park is operated by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. It is nearly a thousand acres (4 km 2) in extent.
The Steamboat Iowa was revered as one of the largest and fastest boats on the Mississippi in the mid 19th century; it is incorporated into the official Seal of Iowa. Built in 1838, the Iowa was the first vessel named for the newly formed Territory of Iowa. It weighed 112 tons, could pull 10 keelboats, and it set the speed record from Galena ...
Steamboat Rock is located on the Iowa River, at a point where the river marks the east edge of the Altmont Moraine, the glacial moraine that marks the east border of the Des Moines Lobe of the Wisconsin Glaciation. The river valley here is a deep gorge through the sandstone bedrock underlying the moraine.
Iowa River. The Iowa River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the state of Iowa in the United States. It is about 323 miles (520 km) long [3] and is open to small river craft to Iowa City, about 65 miles (105 km) from its mouth. Its major tributary is the Cedar River.
Description and history. George M. Verity is a steel-hulled steam-powered stern-wheeler towboat, measuring 130.1 feet (39.7 m) in length, 162.5 feet (49.5 m) with the wheel included. Originally built with a beam of 35.1 feet (10.7 m), she was eventually widened to 40.6 feet (12.4 m). She has a scow -form bow and a keelless flat bottom.
The riverfront in 2018. The Clinton, Iowa Riverfront, (also known as The Dike by Clintonians) is an area by the Mississippi River in Clinton, Iowa, United States, The riverfront is home to one of Clinton's main attractions the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre. There is a band shell with tennis courts, a child-friendly park, restaurants, an aquatic ...
The National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium is a museum located in Dubuque, Iowa, USA. The museum is a property of the Dubuque County Historical Society, [1] which also operates the Mathias Ham Historic Site. The museum has two buildings on its riverfront campus: the Mississippi River Center and the National River Center. [2]
Catchment area. Upper Mississippi River. Basin countries. United States. Water volume. 461,200 acre⋅ft (568,900,000 m 3) Coralville Lake is an artificial lake in Johnson County, Iowa, United States, formed by the Coralville Dam, a dam built from 1949 to 1958 on the Iowa River upstream from the city of Coralville, Iowa.