|
Home >
Travel >
State Parks >
Iowa >
Nine Eagles State Park |
|
|
Facilities and Activities
Picnicking/Shelters
Nine Eagles is a great place for a picnic. Several shaded picnic areas with
tables and fire grills are located throughout the 1,100 park. Two open shelters
are available and may be reserved for a fee through the park office.
Camping
There are 3 campgrounds with 68 campsites (28 with electrical hookups), modern
showers, rest rooms and a trailer dump station. Seven primitive equestrian
campsites are offered and include fire rings and pit toilets. Starting February
13, 2006 advance campsite reservations can be booked through the park
reservation system. Half of the campsites are still available for
self-registration on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Trails
There are nine miles of hiking trails that wind there way through the wooded
hills and valleys of the park. Six miles of trails are open to equestrians.
Lake Activities
(swimming, boating, fishing)
Fishing on the 64-acre lake for bass, northern pike, tiger muskie, channel
catfish, bluegill and crappie is a popular sport. The lake's timbered watershed
makes it one of the clearest artificial impoundments in the state. Only rowboats
and electric motors are permitted. A fish cleaning station and a boat ramp is
also located nearby.
The beach which offers unsupervised swimming, is a great place for swimmers and
sunbathers, young and old. A playground and picnic area are close by.
Rugged wooded hills and valleys abundant with oak trees makes Nine Eagles one of
southern Iowa's most scenic parks. The park has some trees which are more than
300 years old. Visitors enjoy six miles of bridle and nine miles of hiking
trails, swimming at the sandy beach, pleasant camping areas and shaded picnic
spots with tables and fireplaces scattered throughout the 1,100-acre park.
Plants native to the area flourish and provide excellent cover for birds and
wildlife. White-tailed deer can be seen almost every morning and evening along
the park roads. Waterfowl are a common sight along the lakeshore.
Nearby Towns
Lamoni is seven miles west on Highway 69. Davis City is five and a half miles
northwest. Pleasanton is one mile south. Leon is eight miles north on Highway
69.
Contact Information
RR 1
Davis City, IA 50065
ph. 641/442-2855
fax 641/442-2856
E-mail address: Nine_Eagles@dnr.state.ia.us |
|
|
|
