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Waterworks Prairie Park (4/9/25)

Before I get to our outing today, a couple of cat photos.

My first lap sit from shy Maddy
Sam being his amusing self

For today’s walk, we headed to a new (to us) small park, Waterworks Prairie Park. This park was a short 8 minute drive from the house. It has a 3 mile paved trail in a quiet setting (even though relatively close to the interstate) with native grasses and ponds. It is also near the Iowa River and connects to other Iowa City hike/bike trails.

Happily, as with our walk yesterday, we saw other people out enjoying the trail.

Heading out from the parking lot
The main pond in the park
Walking out to the pier overlooking the pond
Another look across the pond, a
water purification plant is on the far right
We did an out and back on a spur
that connects to other Iowa City trails
Walking towards the interstate on the trail connector section
This section ran alongside the Iowa River
We assumed that the small circular building i
s part of the water purification process.
We saw a few of them along the walk.
I wasn’t fast enough to get a photo of birds at the feeders,
but I caught this guy resting on top.
A tree in bloom near another bird feeder
Not sure if this cement path was ever used for anything
but we thought it resembled the shape of a fern frond.

After our walk at the park, we drove back to the house and then walked to a local co-op about 15 minutes from the house to pick up supper.

A mural on the side of the New Pioneer Co-op

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