2019 Mini-Vaca, Western Iowa, Part 3 - Lewis & Clark State Park

Part III finds us at Lewis & Clark State Park just West of Onawa, IA.   We left Preparation Canyon State Park after driving part of the loop and found ourselves on the Northwest side heading North, so kind of perfect for our next journey.

We headed North on Larpenteur Memorial Rd, until we reached E54.  We hitched onto that until we hit K45 which marched our happy butts straight up into Onawa, IA. where we hung a left onto Hwy 175W to arrive shortly at our next destination.

We were early to arrive after our near-death experience at Prepararation Canyon earlier in the day so we passed our campground and headed to museum on the opposite side of the lake.  

The right side red block is our KOA campground.  The left side red block is where the following pictures were taken.

This is Rob is a cutaway of the "Keelboat"  learning about the secret message code that Thomas Jeffereson had established with L & C.

The boys are testing the PSI of what it takes to pull the boat into shore.

Just some random interesting stuffs...

Canoes made of Buffalo skin. Get'cha some!

This begins the brief section of pics that are of the actual only replicas of the 5 boats that L & C used collected into one spot in the world!  It's kind of cool!

Not sure what this plant was but there were a good number of them out in the parking lot as we were leaving and I thought they were fascinating!

Calebber was the only one left with me at this point around the campfire.  You can tell from the sky thru the trees that it's not completely dark yet, but a few folks got sick of the bugs and the 99% humidity...  they went back into the A/C and relative safety from critters.

A shot from my seat with the sun setting and the water slightly visible.