Articles Tagged: State Park

Check out these great Eastern Iowa locations to enjoy all the colors of fall.

State employee and visitation data show a ranger force of 55 has been slashed to 35 since 1995. Viewed in proportion to skyrocketing visitations, that cutback appears devastating: The ranger force now is down to 1 ranger for every 474,286 park visits from the 1995 ratio of 1 to 217,700.

The volunteers oversee campgrounds as resident hosts, clean and maintain parks and serve to bring visions into reality. When a major project requires muscle and money, they step in with labor, programming and fundraising.

As the unofficial kickoff to summer and camping season hits this Memorial Day weekend, Iowa’s state park campground reservations already are largely filled up on weekends in June and July.