Clinton IA Iowa
Frequently Asked Questions
Alongside Riverview Park, a large riverside park that buffers the Mississippi from downtown. Marina, trails, playgrounds and a bandstand follow one another across dozens of hectares.
Yes. Downtown is within walking distance of the park, and the walk is easy and flat. The call has a Sunday-afternoon pace even midweek.
A loop through Riverview Park, a visit to the Sawmill Museum to understand the lumber era, and a wander through the shopping streets among antique dealers and diners.
Because of timber. Log rafts came down from Wisconsin and Minnesota forests to be cut in the local sawmills, making Clinton one of the world's sawmilling capitals in the late nineteenth century.
A museum devoted to the era of the lumber barons: monumental saws, period tools, models and hands-on workshops tell the story of the river drivers and mill workers. Children can handle, build and experiment.
The Clinton Area Showboat Theatre, a summer company housed in a former river boat set in dry dock in the park. It carries on the tradition of floating shows that once worked their way up the Mississippi.
Yes. White pelicans and bald eagles frequent the area seasonally, and the county ecotourism centre on the riverbank introduces visitors to the river's bends, islands and wildlife.
Yes, the riverside trail follows the bank and forms part of the network running hundreds of kilometres along the Mississippi. It's a good way to extend your range during a call.
US dollars and English. Cards are accepted everywhere; keep cash for antique shops and tipping.
May through October. Spring and fall turn the banks into a vast aviary during migration, and the summer theatre runs through the warm season.
