Places List

Suggested places to visit this summer:

1. Auctions, various outdoors
2. Babbling brooks (and listen)
3. Bickelhaupt Arboretum, in Clinton, Iowa
4. Bishop Hill, Illinois (small historical Swedish Village)
5. Ben Butterworth Parkway, Moline, Illinois
6. Black Hawk State Park, in Rock Island, Illinois
7. Bloomfield, Iowa (Bloomfield Rodeo, “The Square”, Lake Fisher)
8. Chapel on the Hill,  (Webers Meat) near Geneseo
9. Clouds (anywhere) with animal shapes!
10. Coralville Lake, from Iowa City, north toward Cedar Rapids
11. Credit Island, Illinois
12. Crow Creek Park, Bettendorf, Iowa
13. Decorah, Iowa, Seed Savers
14. Duck Creek Park Trail, Devil’s Glen Park area, in Bettendorf
15. Eagle Point, Clinton, Iowa
16. Aunt Effie’s Flower Farm, near Long Grove, Iowa
17. Farmers’ Markets, various outdoors
18. Figge Art Museum mezzanine ( rainy day), looks out onto LeClaire Park, Davenport
19. Ferne Clyffe State Park, near Marion, Illinois (South), views of rock formations
20. Fontenelle Nature Association, Nebraska City, Nebraska, near Omaha
21. Galena, Illinois (the steps)
22. Hampton, Illinois (When the Ice Cream  Shoppe is also open)
23. Hauberg Trail at Loud Thunder State Park (kind of secluded)
24. Hennepin Canal, Big Island area in Milan, Illinois for walking;
25. Hennepin Canal Fen (unique ecological area), near Geneseo, and bicycle trail
26. John Deere Campus, Moline, Illinois
27. Jackson Sanders Farm, near Genesea (black angus cattle)
28. Lindsay Park,  Village of East Davenport, Iowa
29. Lock and Dam 14, and  Smith Island Nature Trail, near LeClaire, Iowa
30. LeClaire, Iowa  [Would someone recommend a favorite spot?]
31. Madison, Wisconsin (weekend trip) lots of stuff to do
32. Maquoketa Caves, near Maquoketa, Iowa
33. Metropolis, Illinois (visit Superman)
34. Mines of  Spain State Park, south of Dubuque, Iowa (kind of secluded)
35. Mississippi, near Cordova, Illinois
36. Nahant Marsh, near Davenport, Iowa
37. Pond, near Joslin Illinois
38. Prospect Park, Moline, Illinois
39. Our Lady of the Mississippi Valley Abbey, Dubuque, Iowa
40. Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat Center, Wheaton, Iowa
41. Rochester Cemetery, near Tipton, Iowa
42. Ruins (of any kind) and how nature claims them
43. Saint Anne’s Church
44. Scott County Park, near Long Grove, Iowa
45. Starved Rock State Park, Utica, Illinois, (waterfall summer or winter)
46. Sunrises and Sunsets (anywhere, but especially by water on the beach)
47. Tower Hill, a UCC  Camp, Michigan
48. Walk the Bix at Six on Thursday evenings in July (start anytime after 6pm)
49. Wapsi Environmental Center and Trails, near Dixon, Iowa
50. Wild Cat Den and Grist Mill, near Muscatine, Iowa