Stone State Park Is An Otherworldly Destination On The Iowa Border
By Kim Magaraci|Published April 30, 2020
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Kim Magaraci
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Kim Magaraci graduated Rutgers University with a degree in Geography and has spent the last seven years as a freelance travel writer. Contact: kmagaraci@onlyinyourstate.com
So many people think of Iowa as a flat state, or perhaps a place where you’ll see gentle rolling hills and farmland for as far as the eye can see. While a good portion of the Hawkeye State is flat, our beautiful Iowa has impressive cliffs, bluffs, and hills on both our eastern and western borders. Take a peek at one underrated destination on the Iowa-South Dakota border and you’ll discover Stone State Park feels like it’s part of Middle Earth.
Iowa's Loess Hills are a remarkable natural wonder near western border of Iowa, in the Missouri River Valley.
Stone State Park is a particularly interesting place for nature lovers because it's at the northernmost part of the hills, where you'll find clay bluffs blending into prairie, jagged sedimentary rock hills topped with bur oak forest, and the ecosystem that surrounds the Big Sioux River,