Upper Mississippi Overlooks
St. Paul Indian Mounds Park Minneapolis Ft. Snelling SP Grey Cloud Island SNA
ST. CROIX R MINN. R Prescott Cherokee Park Hastings Bay Pine Bend Bluffs SNA City Spring Lake Park Red Wing Maiden Rock Maiden Rock Bluff Barn Bluff Frontenac Stockholm Pepin Memorial Park Lake City Nelson Frontenac SP Wabasha Buena Vista Park Cassville Bluffs SNA (Abbie Meyer, MVC) Alma
John A. Latsch SP Fountain City Ledebuhr Bluff Garvin Heights Perrot SP Winona Trempealeau Great River Bluffs SP Miller Bluff Grandad Bluff Apple Blossom Scenic Drive Dakota Dobson Bluff Eagles Bluff Park Vetsch Park La Crosse La Crescent Brownsville Hass Bluff Reno Recreation Area Scenic Overlook Casper Bluff Land and Water Preserve MINNESOTA Genoa (Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation) IOWA New Albin De Soto Mount Hosmer Park Rush Creek SNA Lansing Ferryville Sugar Creek Bluff SNA Harper’s Ferry Lynxville Effigy Mounds National Monument Prairie du Chien Marquette McGregor WIS. R. Wylusing SP Wyalusing Pikes Peak SP Devil’s Backbone Glen Haven Guttenberg Nelson Dewey SP Cassville Guttenberg Roadside Overlook Cassville Bluff Potosi Casper Bluff Land and Water Preserve (Jo Eagle Point Park WISCONSIN Dubuque Daviess Conservation Foundation) East Dubuque ILLINOIS Gramercy Park Julien Dubuque Monument Galena Keough Effigy Land & Water Preserve Casper Bluff Land & Water Preserve Bellevue
Bellevue SP Mississippi Palisades SP Sabula Savanna
Eagle Point Park Thomson Fulton Clinton Camanche Albany
Weed Park Le Claire Port Byron Bettendorf Mark Twain Overlook Davenport Pikes Peak, McGregor, Iowa (Molly McGuire) Moline Muscatine Rock Island
28 Big River Magazine / May-June 2009 Minnesota Iowa Miller Bluff end of Rim of the City Rd. or via TNT Trail from Fort Snelling State Park Mount Hosmer Park Hixon Forest, La Crosse Highway 55 and Highway 5, Minneapolis Lansing Access: a moderate walk or a climb up the bluff Access: a short walk Access: a short walk View: La Crosse, marsh, backwaters, Genoa Confluence of Mississippi and Minnesota rivers View: bridge and backwaters Grandad Bluff Indian Mounds Park Effigy Mounds National Monument Bliss Rd., La Crosse east of downtown St. Paul between Harpers Ferry and Marquette Access: a short walk Access: drive right up Access: a walk up the bluff View: city, marsh, river View: airport, bridges, downtown, tows View: river, islands, Prairie du Chien Dobson Bluff Cherokee Park Pikes Peak State Park end of Thistledown Dr., La Crosse 700 Cherokee Heights Blvd., St. Paul downstream from McGregor Access: a short walk Access: drive up Access: a short walk View: city, wooded valley and bluffs, river View: High Bridge, city View: conf. Mississippi and Wisconsin rivers Hass Bluff Pine Bend Bluffs Scientific and Natural Area Guttenberg Roadside Overlook first switchback curve on Easter Rd., La Crosse Inver Grove Heights Highway 52 south of Guttenberg Access: a long walk up the bluff Access: a short walk Access: pull over View: south La Crosse, backwaters, La Crescent View: Upper and Lower Grey Cloud Island, View: city, river valley, backwaters Baldwin Lake, Spring Lake Scenic Overlook Eagle Point Park 2 miles upriver from Genoa Spring Lake Park: Shaars Bluff upstream side of Dubuque Access: a short walk 123rd St. E., northwest of Hastings Access: a short walk View: Lock & Dam 8, Brownsville Access: a short walk View: Lock & Dam 11, Pool 11 View: Spring Lake, Lower Grey Cloud Island Rush Creek State Natural Area Julien Dubuque Monument path across the road from parking area, Grey Cloud Dunes Scientific and Natural Area Mines of Spain State Recreation Area, Dubuque between De Soto and Ferryville 110th St, Cottage Grove Access: a short walk Access: a walk up the bluff Access: a short walk View: islands, river valley View: middle Pool 9, Iowa bluffs View: Lower Grey Cloud Island, channel, bluffs Bellevue State Park Sugar Creek Bluff State Natural Area Barn Bluff downstream side of Bellevue downriver from Ferryville, E. Fifth St., north of Highway 61, Red Wing Access: a short walk Access: a walk up the bluff or a short walk Access: a walk up the bluff View: backwaters of the former Savanna Army View: lower Pool 9, Iowa bluffs View: islands, city, bridge Depot Wyalusing State Park: Point Lookout Memorial Park Eagle Point Park Wyalusing E. Seventh St. to Skyline Dr., Red Wing upstream side of Clinton Access: a short walk Access: drive Access: a short walk View: conf. of Mississippi and Wisconsin rivers View: backwaters, bridge, city View: Lock & Dam 13, Pool 13 Devil’s Backbone State Natural Area Frontenac State Park Weed Park park near where Dugway Rd. crosses Chase Frontenac upstream side of Muscatine Creek, upriver from Glen Haven Access: a short walk Access: drive up Access: a short, steep hike View: Lake Pepin View: river valley View: river, backwaters, islands John A. Latsch State Park Mark Twain Overlook Nelson Dewey State Park upriver from Lock & Dam 5 upstream side of bridge, Lombard St., Muscatine upriver from Cassville Access: a steep climb Access: short drive up steep street Access: drive right up View: Whitman Bottoms View: bridge, river, downtown View: native prairie, backwaters Garvin Heights Cassville Bluffs State Natural Area left and right at end of Huff St., Winona Wisconsin park at the end of Sand Lake Ln., south of Access: a short walk Maiden Rock Bluff State Natural Area Cassville View: city, Alma power plant to Trempealeau Mt. ridge between Stockholm and Maiden Rock Access: a long walk up the bluff View: backwaters, Main Channel, Iowa bluffs Great River Bluffs State Park Access: a moderate walk Dakota View: Lake Pepin, Frontenac Illinois Access: a short walk Buena Vista Park View: Trempealeau to Lake Onalaska Gramercy Park Alma East Dubuque Apple Blossom Scenic Drive Access: a short walk or walk up the bluff from Access: a short walk La Crescent to Dakota town View: city, Dubuque, bridge Access: drive View: city, Lock and Dam 4, backwaters View: Lake Onalaska Keough Effigy Mound Land and Water Pre- Ledebuhr Bluff serve (may open this year) Eagles Bluff Park 1 mile upstream from bridge to Winona (Hwys end of North Cross Rd., southwest of Galena La Crescent 35 & 54 intersection) Access: a moderate walk Access: a short steep walk Access: a walk up the bluff View: Keogh Slough, Iowa bluffs View: city, railroad bridge, downriver View: Winona, Prairie Island, river and backwaters Casper Bluff Land and Water Preserve Vetsch Park Perrot State Park: Brady’s Bluff 870 S. Pilot Knob Rd., south of Galena end of N. Second St., La Crescent upriver from Trempealeau Access: a very short walk Access: a short walk Access: a walk up the bluff View: Harris Slough, Bellevue View: city, backwaters View: sandbars, steep bluffs in Minnesota Mississippi Palisades State Park Reno Recreation Area upriver from Savanna Access: a walk up the bluff Access: moderate walks View: Reno Backwaters, Pool 8 View: backwaters
30 Big River Magazine / May-June 2009