Des Moines, Iowa is the town that everyone knows about and remembers because it not only hosts the Iowa State Fair but it’s the state capital as well. We’ve all learnt the name in grade school. The fair is an eleven day event held every year in the fall. Some of its more common popular attractions include the Butter Cow, a Double Ferris Wheel and the Fairgrounds Grandstand which is host to popular singers and musicians on a nightly basis during the fair.
The Corn Dog Kickoff is a lively auction event held each year where visitors can do some light food grazing while bidding on silent and live auction packages. The proceeds of the auction all go to helping restore the fairgrounds so visitors can eat, bid and relax knowing that their helping the fair.
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Way back in the mid-1960’s, 1966 in fact, the state of Iowa entered into my consciousness. As a five year old at the time, it wasn’t much of a consciousness. All I really knew was Dad took a temporary job transfer and we’d be leaving Chicago to live in Iowa for a year.
Over the next 15 months, we made several long car trips to and from western Iowa to Chicago. I remember always wanting to see the Mississippi River from the big window of our station wagon.
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If you’re planning on visiting Iowa City to catch a Hawkeye football game, you might want to take some extra time to visit some interesting and beautiful tourist attractions in the city. You probably thought the city was just the university and some homes, but you’d be wrong. The Hawkeye city has more to offer than just some great degrees. It is a dream come true for nature photographers.
Did you know there there is a fossil park nearby? You don’t have to wander out to Colorado’s dinosaur park to see fossils, they are right in Iowa at the Devonian Fossil Gorge. This gorge was created by flooding in 1993 and was expanded by the floods of 2008. The flooding washed away soil, trees and roads to reveal a 375 million year old fossilized ocean floor. You can start at the park entrance and walk around with thousands of fossils at your feet.
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