State Preserves

State Preserves

Turin Loess Hills State Preserve

Turin Loess Hills State Preserve is a 220-acre area featuring a rugged Loess Hills landscape, and is home to over 200 species of plants and animals.

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Marietta Sand Prairie State Preserve

Marietta Sand Prairie is a 17-acre preserve featuring a variety of habitats that support nearly 200 species of plants and animals.

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Montauk State Preserve

The historic Montauk estate was the home and estate of William Larrabee, Iowa’s twelfth governor. This 46-acre preserve sits atop a bluff overlooking Clermont.

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Mount Pisgah Cemetery State Preserve

Mount Pisgah Cemetery State Preserve is a historic cemetery associated with a way station used by the Mormons as they migrated across Iowa during the 1800s.

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Ocheyedan Mound State Preserve

Ocheyedan Mound is a large glacial hill known as a “kame,” covering over 40 acres located one mile south of Ocheyedan in Osceola County.

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Old State Quarry State Preserve

Old State Quarry is a historic quarry whose limestone was used to construct the old State Capitol building in Iowa City.

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Pilot Grove State Preserve

Pilot Grove State Preserve is a 7-acre wooded area featuring a variety of wildflowers and prairie-grasses within a larger historical grove west of Williamsburg.

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Roberts Creek State Preserve

Roberts Creek State Preserve is a 13.5-acre area with Ordovician-age limestone, seeps, sinkholes, and springs. The preserve is not accessible to the public.

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Rock Island State Preserve

Rock Island State Preserve is a 17-acre area with a sand prairie, a wetland, and a woodland, featuring sixty species of butterflies and over 130 plants.

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Rolling Thunder Prairie State Preserve

Rolling Thunder Prairie is a 123-acre preserve featuring a gently rolling prairie landscape, with a rich variety of blooms, birds, and butterflies.

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Savage Woods State Preserve

David Savage Memorial Woods is a 12-acre preserve featuring a small upland forest with over 100 species of plants, and a rich variety of birds.

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Silver Lake Fen State Preserve

Silver Lake Fen is a 10-acre preserve containing a series of unusual spring-fed, boggy, hillside wetlands known as “fens," with over 100 plant species.

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Silvers-Smith Woods State Preserve

Silvers-Smith Woods State Preserve is a 20-acre woodland located in Dallas County, featuring steep slopes and over 180 species of plants.

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