Iowa has many recreational opportunites, a large part being state parks . The Iowa DNR is responsible for maintaining the facitilites. County-managed state parks are listed separately at the end.
State parks of Iowa listed alphebetically. Name of Area County Nearby City Ambrose A. Call State Park Kossuth Algona Backbone State Park Delaware Strawberry Point Badger Creek State Park Madison Van Meter Beed's Lake State Park Franklin Hampton Bellevue State Park Jackson Bellevue Big Creek State Park Polk Polk City Black Hawk State Park Sac Lake View Brushy Creek State Park Webster Lehigh Cedar Rock State Park Buchanan Quasqueton Clear Lake State Park Cerro Gordo Clear Lake Dolliver Memorial State Park Webster Lehigh Elk Rock State Park Marion Knoxville Elinor Bedell State Park Dickinson Spirit Lake Fort Atkinson State Park Winneshiek Fort Atkinson Fort Defiance State Park Emmet Estherville Geode State Park Henry Danville George Wyth Memorial State Park Black Hawk WAterloo Green Valley State Park Union Creston Gull Point State Park Dickinson Milford Honey Creek State Park Appanoose Moravia Lacy-Keosauqua State Park Van Buren Keosauqua Lake Ahquabi State Park Warren Indianola Lake Anita State Park Cass Anita Lake Darling State Park Washington Brighton Lake Keomah State Park Mahaska Oskaloosa Lake MacBride State Park Johnson Solon Lake Manawa State Park Pottawattamie Council Bluffs Lake of Three Fires State Park Taylor Bedford Lake Wapello State Park Davis Drakesville Ledges State Park Boone Boone Lewis and Clark State Park Monona Onawa Maquoketa Caves State Park Jackson Maquoketa McIntosh Woods State Park Cerro Gordo Ventura Mines of Span & E.B. Lyons State Park Dubuque Dubuque Nine Eagles State Park Decatur Davis City Okamanpedan State Park Emmet Dolliver Palisades-Kepler State Park Linn Mount Vernon Pikes Peak State Park Clayton McGregor Pilot Knob State Park Hancock Forest City Pine Lake State Park Hardin Eldora Pleasant Creek State Park Linn Palo Prairie Rose State Park Shelby Harlan Preparation Canyon State Park Monona Moorhead Red Haw State Park Lucas Chariton Rice Lake State Park Winnebago Lake Mills Rock Creek State Park Jasper Kellogg Shimek State Forest Lucas Chariton Springbrook State Park Guthrie Cuthrie Center Stephens State Forest Lucas Chariton Stone State Park Plymouth Sioux City Twin Lakes State Park Calhoun Rockwell City Union Grove State Park Tama Gladbrook Viking Lake State Park Montgomery Stanton Volga River State Park Fayette Fayette Walnut Woods State Park Polk Des Moines Wanata State Park Bunea Vista Peterson Wapsipinicon State Park Jones Anamosa Waubonsie State Park Fremont Sidney Wildcat Den State Park Muscatine Muscatine Wilson Island State Park Harrison Missouri Valley Yellow River State Forest Allamakee Waukon
County-managaed State parks of Iowa listed alphebetically. Name of Area County Nearby City Cold Springs State Park Cass Lewis Crystal Lake State Park Hancock Crystal Lake Eagle Lake State Park Hancock Britt Echo Valley State Park Fayette West Union Frank A. Gotch State Park Humboldt Dakota City Heery Woods State Park Butler Clarksville Lake Cornelia State Park Wright Cornelia Kearny State Park Palo Alto Emmetsburg Mill Creek State Park O'Brien Paullina Oak Grove State Park Sioux Hawarden Oakland Mills State Park Henry Oakland Mills Pammel State Park Madison Winterset Sharon Bluffs State Park Appanoose Centerville Spring Lake State Park Greene Grand Junction Swan Lake State Park Carroll Carroll Twin Lakes State Park Calhoun Rockwell
Sources
Iowa State Park Bureau (http://www.iowadnr.com/parks/ )
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Ledges State Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (214 words)
The Ledges State Park is a state park in Iowa in the United States .
The area was designated one of the first of Iowa's state parks in 1924, and is today one of its most visited parks .
In the 1970s, the state proposed a dam on the Des Moines that would have flooded the streambed areas of the park , but popular outcry forced a cancelation of the proposal.
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