The Iowa Great Lakes area has been featured on BLT: The Blog for Lifestyle & Travel’s blog as one of the 50 things you need to experience in Iowa. It’s #11 on the list.
Iowa Great Lakes featured in Discover Iowa article
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Nate Rippke
Zebra Mussels – here they come
Photos surfacing this fall show Zebra Mussels in the Iowa Great Lakes region.
Chicago Tribune features Iowa Great Lakes
The Chicago Tribune recently featured an article titled "Iowa's Great Lakes just keep luring 'em back" featuring our "Midwestern Paradise — the kind of place that people drive to not for what's new but for what's always been there." For the full article, follow this...
Clean Water Alliance seeks advisory committee members
The Dickinson County Clean Water Alliance is committed to excellence in its efforts for Clean and Clear Water in every lake of the county. To help them achieve this goal, they are reaching out to business and industry representatives, community leaders, individuals,...
West Lake Okoboji voted 3rd best recreational lake in the country
A northwest Iowa tourist attraction is drawing accolades from USA Today's readers. Those readers voted West Lake Okoboji as the third best recreational lake in the country. Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri came out on top, followed by Big Bear Lake in California. West...
Celebrating success of fish barrier
Iowa Great lakes Association’s Bill Van Orsdel & Phil Petersen present an example of the Big Head Carp to Mike Hawkins - DNR Spirit Lake Biologist - commemorating the successful installation of the Lower Gar $1,000,000 Electric Fish Barrier which has prevented any...
We Pedal Clean Water Bike Ride planned Saturday, June 13
When a raindrop falls in the Iowa Great Lakes region, it can take many paths before entering one of the lakes. The path that water takes throughout the Iowa Great Lakes watershed impacts the quality of our water, and you can make a difference in that process. Take...
Curlyleaf Pondweed: Impact Felt in NW Iowa Lakes
Curlyleaf pondweed was introduced into Iowa in the early 1900’s and is prevalent in all but 2 states in the U.S. This plant has had extraordinary growing conditions this year as evidenced by the thick mats of this plant that have grown to the surface of East Okoboji Lake.
New hydrological buoy installed
Iowa Lakeside Laboratories has installed a hydrological buoy on West Lake Okoboji. The purpose is to collect West Okoboji lake data that will be helpful for improving water quality. Each 10 minutes the buoy reports by radio the air & water temperature, relative...
Memorial Day weekend kicks off Okoboji summer
This weekend marks the official beginning of summer in the Iowa Great Lakes area. We hope you’ve marked your calendars for all of your favorite Okoboji events. Click to see some of our favorites.
Okoboji ice is out
The Iowa Great Lakes have shed their ice for the season. East Lake Okoboji was declared ice-free March 21st, and the last bit of ice on West Lake Okoboji went out on March 29th.
Supervisors Vote To Send Survey To Other Counties Regarding Revisions To Master Matrix System
The Dickinson County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to send a survey to other Iowa counties asking them if they feel the Master Matrix system should be revised to give local authorities more control over the placement of large confined animal feeding operations, or CAFOS. The supervisors took the action after hearing from Jim Youngclass, a former Dickinson County Extension Director who now lives in Grinnell and serves on the board of directors of Concerned Citizens of Iowa.