Great River Road - Iowa
Address:c/o Iowa Department of Tourism
200 East Grand Ave
Des Moines, IA 50309
Phone:888-472-6035
Web: www.byways.org/browse/byways/2190/ Description:The 2,069-mile Great
River Road borders the Mississippi River through the states of
Mississippi, Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The
326-mile stretch in Iowa preserves historic resources associated with the Mississippi River
and the story of transportation. Visitors can explore the towns and cities along the
route, experience the Mississippi River on steamboats,
commercial barges, and recreational crafts, visit sacred sites and
landscape effigies of Native Americans (including Effigy Mounds
National Monument), and view bald eagles and the migration of 100,000
geese and ducks along the Mississippi Flyway.
Legth: 326 miles (Iowa section); 2,069 miles (entire byway). Start/Endpoint: Follows the Mississippi River along Iowa's eastern border from the Minnesota state line
near New Albin south to the Missouri state line near
Keokuk. Time to Allow: 6 hours (Iowa section); 6 days (entire byway). Designation/Year: National Scenic Byway (2000).
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Iowa.