Back for its sixth year, the Iowa State Park Passport program incentivizes residents to check out any and all of the 60 state ...

Swimming is not recommended at parks shaded in yellow.More information about beach monitoring, including an interactive map, can be found ... at beaches at these Iowa State Parks due to high ...

Pathfinders Resource Conservation and Development has teamed up with the University of Iowa on a project aimed at identifying ...

including at least two in Iowa, have had the remaining staff at some national parks scrambling heading into their busiest season. But why are employees being laid off, and how many national parks ...

Looking at a map of America’s national parks, one might think that the beauty ... but his attempts to create a national park in Iowa were shot down. Instead, a small portion of the area he ...

Iowa is home to 69 state parks. On this episode of Talk of Iowa, we'll review the challenges Iowa's state parks are facing — the budgets has remained flat, creating issues with upkeep and ...

Iowa City's new parks and recreation director is coming from out of state, but she won't need a map to find her way to City Park. Juli Seydell Johnson, who has served as parks and recreation ...

The hikes on January 1st of 2024 will also mark the start of the 100th anniversary years for two Iowa state parks: Ledges and Pilot Knob. Find details about each hike at the website: www.iowadnr ...

several Iowa state parks are working to keep their activities open for Memorial Day Campers. “With the weather, we’ve kind of been stressing a little bit because we’ve had trees coming down ...

but the legacy for the millions of families that recreate at Iowa State Parks will continue," said Iowa DNR Director Kayla Lyon. Mortvedt said he could not say whether the suspected gunman had a ...

Brian Gibbs lost his job as a national park ranger on Friday. He was working as an environmental educator at the Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeast Iowa. It was his "dream job," he wrote ...