\n<\/strong>This state park, eleven miles NW of Des Moines is near Polk city.\u00a0 \u00a0There is fishing, hiking, hunting, and boating.\u00a0 There is an accessible fishing pier.\u00a0\u00a0Travel Iowa<\/a>\u00a0 says the park is “Accessible to Persons with Disabilities.”\u00a0 Call to be sure just what that includes: 515-984-6473.\u00a0 Here is the DNR’s website<\/a>\u00a0 and the website from Iowa Parks<\/a>.
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<\/a>?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0The website says a “26-mile paved multi-use trail allows bicyclists and pedestrians to travel from the beach south through the Saylorville Lake area all the way to Des Moines.” \u00a0This sounds likely for accessibility, but you had better call to be sure.<\/p>\nBig Creek State Park This state park, eleven miles NW of Des Moines is near Polk city.\u00a0 \u00a0There is fishing, hiking, hunting, and boating.\u00a0 There is an accessible fishing pier.\u00a0\u00a0Travel Iowa\u00a0 says the park is “Accessible to Persons with Disabilities.”\u00a0 Call to be sure just what that includes: 515-984-6473.\u00a0 Here is the DNR’s website\u00a0 and … Continue reading Big Creek State Park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-state"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8788,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions\/8788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}